Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.[…]Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
2018 July 17, Autumn Spanne, “Check out these crazy rock formations across the United States”, inCNN[2]:
This park’s strange and beautifulrock formations were formed by the Yellowstone River and various streams that have cut through therock over millions of years, carving out hoodoos, spires and caprocks. The name Makoshika comes from a Lakota word for badlands.
A mass of stone projecting out of theground orwater.
The ship crashed on therocks.
2018 July 17, Autumn Spanne, “Check out these crazy rock formations across the United States”, inCNN[3]:
This enormous, 1.7 million acre property offers hikes to spectacular formations like Metate Arch in Devil’s Garden and the Wahweap Hoodoos, slender, ghostlyrocks that can reach several stories high.
I call all the shots, rip all the spots / Rock all therocks, cop all the drops
2025 June 27,Marina Hyde, “Anna Wintour has spent decades dictating a certain look for the super-rich. Then along came Lauren”, inThe Guardian[4],→ISSN:
Here she is, a billionaire’s wife, yet gripped by constant social anxiety, forever agonising that she’d worn her bestrocks to an event that actually called for “patio jewellery” (necklaces $1m or under).
In an Instagram post on Monday, Georgina Rodríguez, the longtime girlfriend of the soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, shared a photo of a giganticrock on her ring finger.
A large hill or island having no vegetation.
PearlRock near Cape Cod is so named because the morning sun makes it gleam like a pearl.
(figuratively) Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support to another.
(British,uncountable) A type ofconfectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally having some text running through its length.
While we're in Brighton, let's get a stick ofrock!
2009, Michela Wrong,It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower:
Most Kenyans blithely assumed that if the British high commissioner said something, it represented British policy, a thought-through position running from one end of government to the other, like the lettering in a stick of Brightonrock.
1995, “Dear Mama”, inMe Against the World, performed by 2Pac:
I ain't guilty, ‘cause even though I sellrocks / It feels good puttin' money in your mailbox
2014, Russell Brand, “Prologue”, inRevolution,→ISBN, page xiii:
When I necked five-quid bottles of vodka, I did not read the label. When I scoredrocks and bags off tumbleweed hobos blowing through the no-man's-land of Hackney estates, I conducted no litmus test.
(US,slang) An unintelligent person, especially one who repeats mistakes.
It [the originalSpace Jam limped to 88 minutes with detours into Jordan’s swanky mansion and forced its cartoon cavalry to compete for screen time against Wayne Knight and a bunch of basketball players who delivered their lines much less confidently than they put therock through the net.
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To Edward[…] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He satrocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.
1958 February, Arthur F. Beckenham, “A Journey in the Belgian Congo”, inRailway Magazine, page93:
The lights ofLuluabourg disappeared, and we were in the blackness of the African night, which was continuously pierced by the showers of red sparks ejected skywards and red hot ashes deposited on the track as the firemanrocked his fire.
The Blues' challenge had beenrocking at that point, with Terry's centre-back partner Gary Cahill lost to injury and Barca having just levelled the tie through Busquets's neat, close-range finish from Isaac Cuenca's pull-back.
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Shortened fromrock and roll. Since the meaning ofrock has adapted to mean a simpler, more modern,metal-like genre,rock and roll has generally been left referring to earlier forms such as that originating in the 1950s, notably moreswing-oriented style.
(music) A style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally4/4riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar,bass guitar, drums, keyboards (often), and vocals.
The scene wasrocking, all were digging the sounds Igor on chains, backed by his baying hounds The coffin-bangers were about to arrive With their vocal group, The Crypt-Kicker Five.
(transitive) Todo something with excitement yet skillfully.
I need torock a piss.
(transitive) Towear (a piece of clothing, outfit etc.) successfully or with style; tocarry off (a particular look, style).
I call all the shots, rip all the spots /Rock all the rocks, cop all the drops
2011 April 29, Tim Jonze, “Nerdy but nice”, inThe Guardian[7]:
Take today, where she'srocking that well-known fashion combo – a Tory Burch outfit offset with a whacking great bruise attained by smacking her head on a plane's overhead lockers.
2012 May 8, “Rhianna dazzles at the Met Gala”, inThe Sun newspaper[8]:
Rihanna was the pick of the best bunch,rocking a black backless crocodile dress from Tom Ford’s Autumn 2012 collection
Sad Clotho held therocke, the whiles the thread / By grisly Lachesis was spun with pain, / That cruel Atropos eftsoon undid.
1899, T Frank Waters,The Development of Our Town Government:
By order of the General Court in 1642, the "prudentiall" men of each town were instructed "to take care of such [children] as are sett to keep cattle be set to some other employment withal, as spinning upon therock, knitting, weaving tape, etc., and that boys and girls be not suffered to converse together so as may occasion any wanton, dishonest or immodest behavior.
1902, Day Otis Kellogg, Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith,The Encyclopaedia Britannica, page664:
A prepared end of yarn being fixed into the notch, the spinster, by a smart rolling motion of the spindle with the right hand against the right leg, threw it out from her, spinning in the air, while, with the left hand, she drew from therock an additional supply of fibre which was formed into a uniform and equal strand with the right.
1920, John Horner,The Linen Trade of Europe During the Spinning-wheel Period, page32:
It is true that in Ireland, even in recent years, the flax, before being placed on therock or distaff, was tangled into a mass, or, as Cormmelin expresses it, “drawn out in a flat cake.”
“rock”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][9] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved3 July 2023
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