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Definition: Rockers |
RockersNoun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rockers" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1855. (references) |
Synonym: RockersSynonym: bikers (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: arc furnace tilt rockers (electrical engineering). |
Crosswords: Rockers |
| English words defined with "rockers": cradle ♦ mod ♦ rocker, rocking chair, Rocking-chair, Rocking-horse. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "rockers": arc furnace tilt rockers ♦ quicksilver cradle ♦ SEWING-MACHINE ASSEMBLER. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mods and Rockers (1964) Reflections of the Misunderstood Mat Rockers (2002) Off His Rockers (1992) Hot Rockers (1985) Rockers (1978) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Pat Venero (83) relaxes on one of the rockers at the Iverness Club Senior Lining Center in FL. Credit: USDA. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| "Rockers" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 91.23% of the time. "Rockers" is used about 114 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 91.23% | 104 | 31,955 |
| Noun (proper) | 8.77% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 114 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "rockers" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Rockers | Last name | 170 | 49,743 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "rockers": arc furnace tilt rockers. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "rockers": blues-rockers, ex-rockers, folk-rockers, grunge-rockers, mods-and-rockers, pub-rockers, soft-rockers, stude-rockers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "rockers"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Bulgarian | кънки с извито острие. (various references) | ||||
Chinese | 摇摆物 (rocker). (various references) | ||||
German | Schaukelstühle. (various references) | ||||
Korean | 로커 (locker, rocker). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ockersray | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Rockers" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: prockters, recker, Rickert, Rickmers, Rijkers, Roccas, Rochere, Rochers, Rockart, Rockbeare, rockbeds, rockes, rocler, Rodker, Rokuro, Rorkes, Roskens, rucker, ruckess. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rockers" (pronounced rÄ"kerz) |
| 4 | -Ä" k er z | blockers, clockers, dockers, gawkers, lockers. |
| 3 | -k er z | acres, anchors, askers, attackers, automakers, autoworkers, backers, bakers, bankers, Barkers, Bickers, bikers, bloodsuckers, bonkers, bookers, breakers, brokers, bunkers, cankers, caretakers, carjackers, carmakers, caseworkers, checkers, clunkers, conquers, cookers, coworkers, crackers, dockworkers, dressmakers, drinkers, drugmakers, fakers, farmworkers, filmmakers, firecrackers, flickers, freethinkers, hackers, hawkers, hijackers, hikers, homemakers, hookers, icebreakers, jokers, kickers, knickerbockers, knickers, Lakers, lawbreakers, lawmakers, leakers, linebackers, liquors, lookers, loudspeakers, makers, markers, massacres, matchmakers, metalworkers, moneymakers, monikers, moviemakers, newsmakers, nonsmokers, oddsmakers, onlookers, pacemakers, packers, parkers, peacemakers, pickers, plunkers, printmakers, quakers, rackers, rakers, rankers, seekers, shakers, shoemakers, slackers, sleepwalkers, slickers, smokers, sneakers, snickers, speakers, squeakers, stalkers, steelmakers, steelworkers, stickers, stinkers, stockbrokers, strikebreakers, strikers, suckers, takers, talkers, tankers, thinkers, toolmakers, trackers, traffickers, troublemakers, truckers, vicars, walkers, whiskers, woodpeckers, woodworkers, workers, Yonkers, younkers. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: corkers, recorks. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-k-o-r-r-s" | |
-1 letter: corers, corker, crores, ockers, recork, rocker, scorer. | |
-2 letters: ceros, cokes, corer, cores, corks, corse, crore, ocker, recks, rocks, score, sorer. | |
-3 letters: cero, coke, core, cork, cors, eros, errs, kore, kors, okes, orcs, ores, reck, recs, rock, rocs, roes, rose, sock, soke, sore. | |
-4 letters: cor, cos, err, ers, kor, kos, oes, oke, orc, ore, ors. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-k-o-r-r-s" | |
+1 letter: croakers, rockrose. | |
+2 letters: corkscrew, coworkers, reckoners, rockeries, rocketers, rockroses. | |
+3 letters: caseworker, corkscrews, corncrakes, cornhusker, crockeries, crookeries, overstruck, overtricks, retropacks, rocketeers, rocketries, workforces. | |
+4 letters: cankerworms, caseworkers, corkscrewed, cornerbacks, cornhuskers, crewelworks, crowkeepers, dockworkers, dropkickers, rockhoppers, scorekeeper, stockbroker, wickerworks. | |
+5 letters: chokeberries, corkscrewing, forecheckers, lacquerworks, pieceworkers, retrorockets, scorekeepers, stockbreeder, stockbrokers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 6F 63 6B 65 72 73 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. --- -.-. -.- . .-. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01101111 01100011 01101011 01100101 01110010 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R o c k e r s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 006F 0063 006B 0065 0072 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)52816977718485 |
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