Rocker

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -É’kÉ™(r)

Origin

From the verb to rock + -er

Full definition of rocker

Noun

1. A curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth.
2. Hence, a rocking chair
3. (surfing) The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard. (More rocker is a more curved board.)All modern surfboards share a similar rocker design — Bruce Jones http://www.brucejones.com/longboar.htm
4. Someone passionate about rock music.
5. A musician who plays rock music.
6. (informal) A rock music song.
• Pitchfork Media http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/7852-the-top-200-tracks-of-the-1990s-50-21/3/"Girls & Boys" is ... also a tart, sneering rocker, full of ingenious musical gestures ...
7. One who rocks something.
• FullerIt was I, sir, said the rocker, who had the honour, some thirty years since, to attend on your highness in your infancy.
8. (UK) A member of a British subculture of the 1960s, opposed to the mods, who dressed in black leather and were interested in 1950s music.
9. Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, such as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
10. A rocking horse.
11. A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
12. (engineering) A rock shaft.

Derived terms

• off one's rocker

Anagrams

• corker, recork