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

Hence, a rocking chair

• Armenian: ճոճաթոռ (hy) (čočatʻoṙ)
• Finnish: keinutuoli (fi)
• Italian: sedia a dondolo f
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• Polish: fotel bujany m, krzesło bujane m
• Russian: кре́сло-кача́лка (ru) n (kréslo-kačálka), кача́лка (ru) f (kačálka)

The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard

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musician who plays rock music

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

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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, on	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 usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• rock
• rockeur m / rockeuse f

Further reading

• “rocker”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.