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    [Verb]  | "rock" | \ ˈräk \


    1: to move back and forth in or as if in a cradle

    2: to cause to sway back and forth

    3: to cause to shake violently

    Origin: 12th century ;

     Middle English rokken, from Old English roccian; akin to Old High German rucken to cause to move;

    [Verb]  | "rock and roll" 


    1: to perform or dance to rock and roll music

    2: to start out or get going energetically

    Origin: 1956 ;

    [Noun]  | "rock" 


    1: a rocking movement

    2: popular music usually played on electronically amplified instruments and characterized by a persistent heavily accented beat, repetition of simple phrases, and often country, folk, and blues elements

    Origin: 1559 ;

    [Noun]  | "rock" 


    1: a large mass of stone forming a cliff, promontory, or peak

    2: a concreted mass of stony material; also : broken pieces of such masses

    3: consolidated or unconsolidated solid mineral matter; also : a particular mass of it

    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English rokke, from Old French dialect (Norman & Picard) roke, from Vulgar Latin *rocca;

    [Noun]  | "rock" 


    1: distaff

    2: the wool or flax on a distaff

    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English roc, from Middle Dutch rocke; akin to Old High German rocko distaff;

    [Noun]  | "rock and roll" | \ ˌrä-kən-ˈrōl \


    1: popular music usually played on electronically amplified instruments and characterized by a persistent heavily accented beat, repetition of simple phrases, and often country, folk, and blues elements : rock —often used before another noun

    Origin: 1954 ;

    [Noun]  | "rock and roll*er" | \ ˌrä-kən-ˈrō-lər \


    1: rocker

    Origin: 1956 ;

    [Noun]  | "rock bass" 


    1: a brown spotted sunfish (Ambloplites rupestris) found especially in the upper Mississippi River valley and Great Lakes region

    Origin: 1811 ;

    [Geographical name]  | "Rock" | \ ˈräk \


    1: river 300 miles (483 kilometers) long in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois flowing south and southwest into the Mississippi River at the city of Rock Island

    [Adjective]  | "rock-bot*tom" | \ ˈräk-ˈbä-təm \


    1: being the very lowest; also : fundamental

    Origin: 1884 ;

    [Adjective]  | "rock" 


    [Adjective]  | "rock-ribbed" 


    1: as in unyielding, unbending;



    [Adjective]  | "rock-bottom" 


    1: of, relating to, or located at the bottom;


      * e.g., " ... rock-bottom prices on home electronics "




    [Noun]  | "rock" 


    1: a usually valuable stone cut and polished for ornament;


      * e.g., " ... a trophy wife with enough rocks to open her own jewelry store "



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    [Noun]  | "rock bottom" 


    1: the lowest part, place, or point;


      * e.g., " ... when the stock market was at its rock bottom was the time to buy in "




    2: the lowest point or level;


      * e.g., " ... our finances must be at rock bottom if we can't even afford a fast-food joint "




    [Noun]  | "rock bottoms" 


    1: the lowest part, place, or point;


      * e.g., " ... when the stock market was at its rock bottom was the time to buy in "




    2: the lowest point or level;


      * e.g., " ... our finances must be at rock bottom if we can't even afford a fast-food joint "




    [Verb]  | "rock" 


    1: to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions;


      * e.g., " ... the boat was rocking so much that several passengers felt seasick "



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    2: to swing unsteadily back and forth or from side to side;


      * e.g., " ... the drunk rocked on his heels for a moment and then fell flat on his back "



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    3: to make senseless or dizzy by a blow;


      * e.g., " ... she rocked the mugger with a single punch and then ran "



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     [ "rock" ]

    1: used to defeat scissors in a game

      * e.g.,  ... aha! my rock beat your scissors! 

     [ "rock" ]

    1:  a stone a piece of crack cocaine that is smoked AKA "rock'n'roll". It's the ultimate form of musical expression. It's roots are in American, British and Irish folk, country and western (the classic stuff - NOT that poofy crap of today), jazz, blues, bluegrass and other sources. Pioneered by Ike Turner, Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, King Elvis, Bill Haley + the Comets, the Beach Boys and many more. Expanded, further defined and influenced even more by British bands like the Beatles, Rolling Stones and the Kinks and German bands like Kraftwerk. Now rock music is listened to any performed by people in every nation. It's an American cultural phenominae that has shaped the world. to be cool. To rule, to be bad. In the U.S. Navy this word is jargon for flunking an academic test.

      * e.g.,  ...  Billy threw a rock at a glass house. Next came the sound of glass shattering. When the cops came in the apartment to make their dope bust Mikey put his crack pipe (with a rock in it) in the toilet bowl bottom hole. The police found it anyway and arrested Mikey. Just gimme some of that rock'n'roll music. Any old way ya choose it. The Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame is located in Cleveland, Ohio supposedly because the music got its name from a Cleveland slang term for sex. Rise up! Gather round! Rock this place to the ground. at a Rush concert someone behind me yelled, "GEDDY LEE, YEWWWW RAWHKK!". Because of the distance to the stage and the volume Geddy Lee and his Rush-mates Neil and Alex couldn't hear that, but they've been rocking for many years - they know. Seaman Vincent: how did you do on the first Propulsion Engineering Basics test? Seaman James: I aced it. Seaman Vincent: Did you hear how Seaman Steve did? He ROCKED it! that manufactured Britney/Xtina/NSYNC/teen pop garbage is NOT rock, it's a CROCK. 

     [ "rock" ]

    1: 1: a form of cocaine

      * e.g.,  ... yo, pass that rock so i can shoot some hoops 

     [ "rock" ]

    2: 2: a basketall

     [ "rock" ]

    3: 3: a stone

     [ "rock" ]

    4: 4:a type of music

     [ "rock" ]

    5: 5: a fake ass wrestler

     [ "rock" ]

    1: To wear something, or to already be wearing something.

      * e.g.,  ... Hey I got some new True Religions... 

     [ "rock" ]

    1: to use. to make do with. usually to great effect.

      * e.g.,  ... you don't need to make up the guest bed, we can rock the couch. 

     [ "rock" ]

    1: A stupid or uncoordinated person.

      * e.g.,  ... Tony is such a rock. 

     [ "rock" ]

    1: wide range of music, probably the largest class, involving guitars generally used to make a whole lotta noise. anyone that thinks rock is bad has no idea what rock is past whatever they saw on mtv.

      * e.g.,  ... i, wanna rock and roll all night, and party every day 

     [ "rock" ]

    1: n. slang for crack cocaine

     [ "rock" ]

    1: A form of hard earth, larger than a stone or pebble but not quite as large as a boulder. Usually gray.

      * e.g.,  ... He threw that rock in his face. That guy's in the hospital now. 

     [ "rock" ]

    2: Do you really need to look this up?

     [ "rock" ]

    1: to man, use, wear, or operate

      * e.g.,  ... i suggest you rock those particular shoes to the company ball. 

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