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Noun: rockers  ró-ku(r)z
  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 labourers
    - bikers
Noun: rocker  ró-ku(r)
  1. A performer, composer or fan of rock music
    - rock 'n' roll musician
     
  2. [Brit] A teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles
     
  3. A chair mounted on a curved support so that it can rock back and forth
    - rocking chair
     
  4. 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
    - cradle
     
  5. An ice skate with a curved blade
     
  6. A curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro
     
  7. An attendant who rocks a child in a cradle

Type of: adolescent, attendant, attender, chair, ice skate, instrumentalist, musician, muso [Brit, informal], player, stripling, support, teen, teenager, tender, trough, youth subculture

Part of: cradle, hobby, hobbyhorse, rocking horse

Encyclopedia: Rockers

Rocker, John