rocker

See also: Rocker

English

Etymology

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. 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. (Britain) 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 tool with small teeth that roughens a metal plate to produce tonality in mezzotints.
11. A rocking horse.
12. A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
13. (engineering) A rock shaft.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• cock rocker
• off one's rocker
• rockered

• rockers reggae
• rocker switch
• surf rocker

Translations

curved piece of wood

• Finnish: keinutuolin jalka
• Polish: biegun (pl)

• Russian: коромы́сло (ru) n (koromýslo), баланси́р (ru) m (balansír)

Hence, a rocking chair

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

• Polish: fotel bujany m, krzesło bujane m
• Russian: кре́сло-кача́лка (ru) n (kréslo-kačálka), кача́лка (ru) f (kačálka)

The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard

musician who plays rock music

• French: rockeur (fr) m, rockeuse (fr) f
• German: Rocker (de) m, Rockerin f, Rockmusiker m, Rockmusikerin f

• Portuguese: roqueiro (pt) m, roqueira (pt) f
• Spanish: roquero (es) m, roquera f, rockero m, rockera f

Someone passionate about rock music

• Finnish: rokkari (fi)
• German: Rocker (de) m, Rockerin f
• Greek: ροκάς (el) m (rokás)

• Portuguese: roqueiro (pt) m, roqueira (pt) f
• Russian: ро́кер (ru) m (róker)
• Spanish: roquero (es) m, roquera f, rockero m, rockera f

One who rocks something

Anagrams

• Corker, Croker, corker, croker, re-rock, recork, rerock

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Danish

Noun

rocker c (singular definite rockeren, plural indefinite rockere)

1. An outlaw biker

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French

Etymology

rock +‎ -er

Verb

rocker

1. to rock (play or enjoy rock music)

Conjugation

Conjugation of rocker (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rocker
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rockant /ʁɔ.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rocké /ʁɔ.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rocke /ʁɔk/	rockes /ʁɔk/	rocke /ʁɔk/	rockons /ʁɔ.kɔ̃/	rockez /ʁɔ.ke/	rockent /ʁɔk/
	imperfect	rockais /ʁɔ.kɛ/	rockais /ʁɔ.kɛ/	rockait /ʁɔ.kɛ/	rockions /ʁɔ.kjɔ̃/	rockiez /ʁɔ.kje/	rockaient /ʁɔ.kɛ/
	past historic2	rockai /ʁɔ.ke/	rockas /ʁɔ.ka/	rocka /ʁɔ.ka/	rockâmes /ʁɔ.kam/	rockâtes /ʁɔ.kat/	rockèrent /ʁɔ.kɛʁ/
	future	rockerai /ʁɔ.kʁe/	rockeras /ʁɔ.kʁa/	rockera /ʁɔ.kʁa/	rockerons /ʁɔ.kʁɔ̃/	rockerez /ʁɔ.kʁe/	rockeront /ʁɔ.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rockerais /ʁɔ.kʁɛ/	rockerais /ʁɔ.kʁɛ/	rockerait /ʁɔ.kʁɛ/	rockerions /ʁɔ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	rockeriez /ʁɔ.kə.ʁje/	rockeraient /ʁɔ.kʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	rocke /ʁɔk/	rockes /ʁɔk/	rocke /ʁɔk/	rockions /ʁɔ.kjɔ̃/	rockiez /ʁɔ.kje/	rockent /ʁɔk/
	imperfect2	rockasse /ʁɔ.kas/	rockasses /ʁɔ.kas/	rockât /ʁɔ.ka/	rockassions /ʁɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/	rockassiez /ʁɔ.ka.sje/	rockassent /ʁɔ.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rocke /ʁɔk/	—	rockons /ʁɔ.kɔ̃/	rockez /ʁɔ.ke/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• rock
• rockeur m / rockeuse f

Further reading

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