ROCKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rocker mean? 

• ROCKER (noun)
  The noun ROCKER has 7 senses:

1. an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle

2. a performer or composer or fan of rock music

3. a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles

4. a chair mounted on rockers

5. a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold

6. an ice skate with a curved blade

7. a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro

  Familiarity information: ROCKER used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROCKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An attendant who rocks a child in a cradle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("rocker" is a kind of...):

attendant; attender; tender (someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another)

Derivation:

rock (cause to move back and forth)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A performer or composer or fan of rock music

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

rock 'n' roll musician; rocker

Hypernyms ("rocker" is a kind of...):

instrumentalist; musician; player (someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rocker"):

rock star (a famous singer of rock music)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("rocker" is a kind of...):

adolescent; stripling; teen; teenager (a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Holonyms ("rocker" is a member of...):

bikers; rockers (originally a British youth subculture that evolved out of the teddy boys in the 1960s; wore black leather jackets and jeans and boots; had greased hair and rode motorcycles and listened to rock'n'roll; were largely unskilled manual laborers)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A chair mounted on rockers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

rocker; rocking chair

Hypernyms ("rocker" is a kind of...):

chair (a seat for one person, with a support for the back)

Meronyms (parts of "rocker"):

rocker (a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro)

round; rung; stave (a crosspiece between the legs of a chair)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rocker"):

Boston rocker (a rocking chair that has a high spindle back and a decorative top panel)

platform rocker (rocking chair on a stationary base)

shoofly (a child's rocking chair with the seat built between two flat sides that are shaped to resemble an animal (such as a swan or duck))

Derivation:

rock (move back and forth or sideways)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cradle; rocker

Hypernyms ("rocker" is a kind of...):

trough (a long narrow shallow receptacle)

Sense 6

Meaning:

An ice skate with a curved blade

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("rocker" is a kind of...):

ice skate (skate consisting of a boot with a steel blade fitted to the sole)

Sense 7

Meaning:

A curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("rocker" is a kind of...):

support (any device that bears the weight of another thing)

Holonyms ("rocker" is a part of...):

cradle (a baby bed with sides and rockers)

hobby; hobbyhorse; rocking horse (a child's plaything consisting of an imitation horse mounted on rockers; the child straddles it and pretends to ride)

rocker; rocking chair (a chair mounted on rockers)

Derivation:

rock (cause to move back and forth)