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Rockers   /rˈɑkərz/   Listen
Rockers

noun
1.
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.  Synonym: bikers.


Rocker

noun
1.
An attendant who rocks a child in a cradle.
2.
A performer or composer or fan of rock music.  Synonym: rock 'n' roll musician.
3.
A teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles.
4.
A chair mounted on rockers.  Synonym: rocking chair.
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.  Synonym: cradle.
6.
An ice skate with a curved blade.
7.
A curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro.



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"Rockers" Quotes from Famous Books



... being attended by the mayor, aldermen and sheriffs, as well as the chief officers of the City. The infant prince was presented with a gilt cup and cover weighing sixty ounces, and containing the sum of L500 in gold. Similar fees were paid to the midwife, nurse and "rockers" to those paid on the occasion of the baptism of his elder brother.(362) During the absence of the mayor and aldermen at St. James', where the ceremony took place, a double watch was ordered to be kept ...
— London and the Kingdom - Volume II • Reginald R. Sharpe
... of these movements, as seen in head-beaters (as if, just as nature impels those partially blind to rub the eyes for "light-hunger," so it prompts the feeble-minded to strike the head for cerebrations), rockers, rackers, shakers, biters, etc. Movements often pass to fixed attitudes and postures of limbs or body, disturbing the normal balance between flexors and extensors, the significance of which ...
— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall
... though, there ain't one in ten members that knows much more about yachtin' than I do. Navigatin' porch rockers, orderin' all hands up for fancy drinks, and conductin' bridge whist regattas was their chief sea-goin' accomplishments; and when it come to makin' myself useful, who was it, I'd like to know, that chucked the boozy steward off the float ...
— Odd Numbers - Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford


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