# rocker
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English rokker, rockere, rokkere, equivalent to rock +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɹɒk.ə(ɹ)/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈɹɑ.kɚ/
* (General Australian) IPA: /ˈɹɔk.ə(ɹ)/
* Rhymes: -ɒkə(ɹ)

### Noun

rocker (plural rockers)
* A curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth.
** 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 30:The cradle-rockers had done hard duty for so many years, under the weight of so many children, on that flagstone floor, that they were worn nearly flat, in consequence of which a huge jerk accompanied each swing of the cot, flinging the baby from side to side like a weaver's shuttle, as Mrs Durbeyfield, excited by her song, trod the rocker with all the spring that was left in her after a long day's seething in the suds.
* A rocking chair.
** 2021, “Buy Dirt”, in Buy Dirt, performed by Jordan Davis:A few days before he turned 80 He was sittin' out back in a rocker
* (surfing) The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard. (More rocker is a more curved board.)
    All modern surfboards share a similar rocker design — Bruce Jones
* The breve below as in ḫ.
** 1984, Matthew Wolfgang Stolper, Texts from Tall-i Malyan Elamite Administrative Texts (1972–1974) (Occasional Publications of the Babylonian Fund; 6), University of Pennsylvania Press, →ISBN, page XVII:Like the editors of other Elamite texts, I omit the diacritic rocker from h in Elamite and from H in logograms in Elamite texts. I retain the rocker in ḫ and Ḫ in Sumerian and Akkadian.
** 2011, Theo van den Hout, The Elements of Hittite, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 13:Although the exact sound value of s remains uncertain, and there is only one such sibiliant in Hittite, it is traditionally transliterated with a so-called haček: š. This should not be taken, however, as evidence that it was a palatal sound (as sh in show). The same is true for the traditional “rocker” under the laryngeal ḫ: there is no other h-sign, and the diacritic is not strictly necessary.
** 2019, John Huehnergard, “Proto-Semitic”, in Huehnergard, John and Na'ama Pat-El, editors, The Semitic Languages, 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 15:Semitistic transliteration systems […] a number of features are common to most of them: […] ḫ (“h” with a “rocker,” conventionally called “hooked h”) for the voiceless velar/uvular fricative, IPA [x]/[χ], […]
* Someone passionate about rock music.
* A musician who plays rock music.
* (informal) A rock music song.
** September 2010, Pitchfork Media, The Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s
    "Girls & Boys" is […] also a tart, sneering rocker, full of ingenious musical gestures […]
* One who rocks something.
** 1660, Thomas Fuller, “Trusting maketh one Trusty”, in Mixt Contemplations in Better Times, London: […] R[oger] D[aniel] for Iohn Williams, […], →OCLC, page [75]:It was I Sir (ſaid the Rocker) who had the honour (ſome thirty years ſince) to attend on your Highneſs in your Infancie, […]
* (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.
* 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.
* A tool with small teeth that roughens a metal plate to produce tonality in mezzotints.
* A rocking horse.
* A rocker board.
* A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
* A kind of electrical switch with a spring-loaded actuator.
* (engineering) A rock shaft.
* (military) A curved line accompanying the chevrons that denote rank, qualifying the rank with a grade.
** 2000, Mark Collantes, The Academy, page 66:Cadet Sergeant First Class: 3 Chevrons and 2 rockers. Cadet Master Sergeant: 3 Chevrons and 3 rockers. Cadet First Sergeant: 3 Chevrons, 3 rockers with a diamond inset.

#### Derived terms

* acoustic rocker
* alt-rocker
* anti-rocker
* cock rocker
* folk-rocker
* glam rocker
* hard rocker
* hard rocker
* off one's rocker
* platform rocker
* punk rocker
* rockered
* rocker panel
* rockers reggae
* rocker switch
* root-rocker
* spring rocker
* stoner rocker
* surf rocker
* tri-rocker

#### Translations
### Anagrams

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

## Danish
### Noun

rocker c (singular definite rockeren, plural indefinite rockere)
* An outlaw biker

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English rocker.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrɔ.kər/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: roc‧ker
* Rhymes: -ɔkər

### Noun

rocker m (plural rockers, diminutive rockertje n)
* a rocker (rock musician or rock fan)
* a rocker (rock song)

#### Related terms

* rockster

## French
### Etymology

From rock +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʁɔ.ke/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

rocker
* to rock (play or enjoy rock music)

#### Related terms

* rock
* rockeur m / rockeuse f

### Further reading

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

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English rocker.

### Noun

rocker m (plural rockeri)
* rock music musician or fan

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English rocker.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈrokeɾ/ [ˈro.keɾ]
* Rhymes: -okeɾ

### Noun

rocker m (plural rockeres)
* (rare) rocker (rock musician)