rock and roll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒk ən(d)ˈɹəʊl/
ipa: /ˈɹɑk ən(d)ˈɹoʊl/
Forms: form: rocks and rolls
form: rock and rolls
form: rocking and rolling
form: rock and rolling
form: rocked and rolled
form: rocked and rolled
form: rock and rolled
form: rock and rolled
form: rock-and-roll
form: rock'n'roll
form: rock 'n' roll
form: rock n roll
form: rock 'n roll
form: rock-n-roll
form: rock-'n'-roll
form: rock & roll
Etymology: From rock (move back and forth) + and + roll; originally a verb phrase common among African Americans, meaning "to have sexual intercourse"; it was an euphemism that appeared in song titles since at least 1914 (Trixie Smith's "My Man Rocks Me With One Steady Roll").
As a name for a specific style of popular music from the early 1950s, popularized by disc jockey Alan Freed in reference to the euphemistic use in song titles.
Senses: synonyms: word: bang
word: do it
word: approach
word: cohabit
word: company
word: copulate
word: couple
word: engage in sex
word: exchange flesh
word: have intimate relations
word: have marital relations
word: have sex
word: have sexual relations
word: intercourse
word: know
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: make love
word: mate
word: share a bed
word: sleep together
word: strain
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beat
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: bop
word: bounce
word: breed
word: bump nasties
word: bump uglies
word: catch a dick
word: dance
word: discuss Uganda
word: dip one's pen in someone's inkwell
word: do it
word: do the deed
word: do the nasty
word: eff
word: engender
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get busy
word: get down
word: get freaky
word: get it
word: get it on
word: get jiggy
word: get laid
word: get lucky
word: get one's dick wet
word: get one's end away
word: get one's freak on
word: get one's groove on
word: get one's leg over
word: get one's oats
word: get physical
word: get some
word: get the dirty water off one's chest
word: graft the forked tree
word: go all the way
word: haul one's ashes
word: have it away
word: have it off
word: hide the salami
word: hide the sausage
word: hide the wienie
word: hike the Appalachian Trail
word: hook up
word: hump
word: jig-jig
word: knock boots
word: lay pipe
word: lay the pipe
word: make it
word: make out
word: make the beast with two backs
word: make whoopee
word: meddle
word: ming
word: Netflix and chill
word: penetrate
word: pipe
word: pipe down
word: play
word: play hide the sausage
word: pound
word: rail
word: ride
word: rock and roll
word: roger
word: roll around
word: root
word: screw
word: see someone's etchings
word: sex
word: shag
word: shelve
word: show someone one's etchings
word: slap bellies
word: stick
word: tumble
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To have sex.
synonyms: rock
glosses: To play rock and roll music.
examples: text: Does everyone know what car they're going in? Then let's rock and roll!
text: He puts the brakes on here and there down the next four miles of curves, but then opens her out so that she rocks and rolls through Totnes at a mile a minute for a flying start on the worst bank of the whole trip, five steep miles up to Rattery Box and four not so steep past Brent up to Wrangaton.
ref: 1956 February, W. A. Tuplin, “Hot Work on a "Star"”, in Railway Magazine, page 90:
text: Now we are ready to rock and roll.
ref: 2017, Ben J. Heijdra, Foundations of Modern Macroeconomics, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, page 484:
synonyms: word: initiate
word: open
word: begin
word: commence
word: go
word: inchoate
word: initiate
word: open
word: get
word: originate
word: rock and roll
word: start
glosses: To start, commence, begin, get moving; move along with a rocking, rolling motion.
Derived terms: ready to rock and roll