rocker

English

Etymology

From the verb to rock + -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒkə(r)

Noun

rocker (plural rockers)

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 [1]

4. Someone passionate about rock music.
5. A musician who plays rock music.
6. (informal) A rock music song.
   • Pitchfork Media [2]

     "Girls & Boys" is […] also a tart, sneering rocker, full of ingenious musical gestures […]

7. One who rocks something.
   • Fuller

     It 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.

Translations

curved piece of wood

• Finnish: keinutuolin jalka

• Russian: коромысло (ru) n (koromýslo), балансир (ru) m (balansír)

Hence, a rocking chair

• Armenian: ճոճաթոռ (čočatʿoṙ)
• Finnish: keinutuoli (fi)
• Italian: sedia a dondolo f

• Russian: кресло-качалка (ru) n (kréslo-kačálka), качалка (ru) f (kačálka)

The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard

Someone passionate about rock music

• Finnish: rokkari (fi)
• Greek: ροκάς (el) m (rokás)
• Portuguese: roqueiro m

• Russian: рокер (ru) m (róker)
• Spanish: roquero (es)

One who rocks something

Derived terms

• off one's rocker

Anagrams

• corker, recork

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Danish

Noun

rocker c (singular definite rockeren, plural indefinite rockere)

1. An outlaw biker

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French

Verb

rocker

1. to rock (play or enjoy rock music)

Conjugation

   Conjugation of rocker (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		rocker			avoir rocké
gerund		en rockant			en ayant rocké
present participle		rockant
past participle		rocké
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	rocke	rockes	rocke	rockons	rockez	rockent
	imperfect	rockais	rockais	rockait	rockions	rockiez	rockaient
	past historic1	rockai	rockas	rocka	rockâmes	rockâtes	rockèrent
	future	rockerai	rockeras	rockera	rockerons	rockerez	rockeront
	conditional	rockerais	rockerais	rockerait	rockerions	rockeriez	rockeraient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	rocke	rockes	rocke	rockions	rockiez	rockent
	imperfect1	rockasse	rockasses	rockât	rockassions	rockassiez	rockassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	rocke	—	rockons	rockez	—
1literary tenses

External links

• "rocker" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).