0 one of the two curved pieces of wood under a rocking chair that allow it to move backwards and forwards: --
1 someone who sings or plays rock music (= music with a strong beat played with electric guitars and drums): --
The days of mods and rockers may be long gone, but menswear is as tribal as ever.
Seaside towns such as Margate and Brighton were infamous for violence between mods and rockers in the 1960s.
The album contained everything from slow ballads to unabashed rockers.
I'm a rocker. I love metal, thrash, and my favourite groups are Pink Floyd, Metallica, Zeppelin and Cream.
She is a powerful performer, both as a rocker and a balladeer.
The Sheffield indie rockers Arctic Monkeys headlined that year's festival.
2 someone who performs or likes rock music --
3 a rocking chair (= a chair built on two pieces of curved wood), or one of the two curved pieces under the chair that allow it to move forward and backward --
If an individual goes off his rocker, there is very little one can do to stop it.
It is estimated that the cost of replacing the rocker assemblies will be about £200,000.
Because she is using those songs to establish her own legitimacy as a rocker, she leaves them intact and performs them unironically - straight, so to speak.
The rockers are not prepared to see it as a genre term that belongs exclusively to the bard poets, but link it to their own work.
Pairs of wheels mounted on rocker arms move independently over rough surfaces.
My generation, the punk rockers, grew up totally affected by the war.
A rocker is a chair which can be rocked back and forth.
Although his origins were actually in the earlier pub rock scene, his audience was undoubtedly swollen by a large contingent of punk rockers.
