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An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.
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Rocuronium.
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A formation of minerals, specifically:
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A large hill or island having no vegetation.
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Pearl Rock near Cape Cod is so named because the morning sun makes it gleam like a pearl.
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Something that is strong, stable, and dependable; a person who provides security or support to another.
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A lump or cube of ice.
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I'll have a whisky on the rocks, please.
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A type of confectionery made from sugar in the shape of a stick, traditionally having some text running through its length.
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While we're in Brighton, let's get a stick of rock!
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A crystallized lump of crack cocaine.
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An unintelligent person, especially one who repeats mistakes.
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An Afrikaner.
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An extremely conservative player who is willing to play only the very strongest hands.
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Any of several fish:
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A basketball.
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Yo homie, pass the rock!
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(rock paper scissors) A closed hand (a handshape resembling a rock), that beats scissors and loses to paper. It beats lizard and loses to Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
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A cricket ball, especially a new one that has not been softened by use
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A crystal used to control the radio frequency.
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An act of rocking; a rocking motion; a sway.
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To move gently back and forth.
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Rock the baby to sleep.
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To cause to shake or sway violently.
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Don't rock the boat.
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To sway or tilt violently back and forth.
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The boat rocked at anchor.
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(of ore etc.) To be washed and panned in a cradle or in a rocker.
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The ores had been rocked and laid out for inspection.
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To disturb the emotional equilibrium of; to distress; to greatly impact (most often positively).
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Downing Street has been rocked by yet another sex scandal.
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To do well or to be operating at high efficiency.
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To make love to or have sex with.
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To play, perform, or enjoy rock music, especially with a lot of skill or energy.
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Let’s rock!
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To be very favourable or skilful; excel; be fantastic.
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Chocolate rocks.
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To thrill or excite, especially with rock music
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Let's rock this joint!
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To do something with excitement yet skillfully
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I need to rock a piss.
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To wear (a piece of clothing, outfit etc.) successfully or with style; to carry off (a particular look, style).
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Distaff.
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The flax or wool on a distaff.
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Money.
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Testicles.
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Crack cocaine.
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You seem a bit out of it lately, have you been smoking rocks again?
Examples of rocks in a Sentence
If they didn't own the ore mines, they'd be using rocks to fight.
The rocks have not life, and they cannot think.
Monstrous gray rocks jutted up from the earth and found themselves entwined with honeysuckle and briar vines.
They parked behind rocks, away from the direction of their approach, and immediately saw a nearly invisible path upward.
It crossed her mind that he might trip on the mossy rocks, but he crossed the creek with sure steps.
No, humans do not eat rocks.
She lay hidden among some rocks, and nothing could make her stir.
I saw something red up there in the rocks.
Cassie shrank back against the rocks, hoping the Indians wouldn't look up.
He took her hand and led her across the camp, heading for a jumble of rocks.
On the other side of the rocks, water sprang from the ground and spilled off a ledge into a large blue pool.
At the end of the pool, it seeped back into the ground between some more rocks.
He stooped and selected several rocks.
Her eyes went to the rocks.
Instead she crossed to the full bar and traded the champagne for a triple shot of whiskey on the rocks.
She darted behind the nearby rocks.
Large rocks had been stacked, forming an outside wall that made a room under an overhanging cliff.
There was no shortage of rocks on the mountain.
Stay away from the rocks.
A good deal of the seaboard is dangerous by reason of the sharp rocks which lie near the surface.
While she despised the man, her feelings still lacked a motive to sever his rope in cold blood and watch him plummet down to the rocks and churning river below.
Turning her attention to the hills, she saw a single trail leading up into the rocks.
The icy water tickled her toes as it leaped over her feet and danced around the rocks.
She circled the tree, placing rocks around its trunk as she went.
Jenn grabbed more rocks and returned to the immortal world.
Placing the rocks on the ground near the return portal, she looked around.
She moved cautiously through the well-maintained orchard, back to the tree marked by the rocks.
She maneuvered that way now, leaning against rocks to peer into dark depths.
The water moved silently over moss and lichen covered slabs of rocks, forming small pools in the low spots.
Rob walked gingerly across the rocks, wincing.
The water was so cold that it made the rocks seem sharper.
Moments later it clattered on the rocks below.
For a few moments he stood looking over the edge at the rocks below.
Behind him, the bluff fell away to rocks far below.
You could get the wheelbarrow and go with Alex to get some more rocks.
He followed the tracks until he lost them across some rocks.
Sam started helping Carmen place rocks.
She maneuvered the car around washed out places and eased it over rocks that erupted from the surface of the dusty road.
Stay away from the weeds and rocks and you won't have to worry about them.
The rocks were deceptively sharp and the coldness of the water increased the sensitivity of the soles of her feet.
She ducked under the water and swam a short distance before surfacing to make sure she wasn't close to any rocks.
The sound began as light pecks on the window, and quickly grew to a crescendo of crashing rocks.
He was moving quickly, around the building and seeking shelter among the rocks that lined one side of the moonlit beach to separate it from the property of the neighboring set of condos.
Petroleum and natural gas also occur in the plateau rocks in great quantities.
Both to the east and to the west of this depression the Archean and Palaeozoic rocks which form the greater part of the island are strongly folded, with the exception of the uppermost beds, which belong to the Permian system.
The Palaeozoic rocks form two extensive masses, one in the south-east and the other in the south-west.
The favourite haunts of the wild cat are mountain forests where masses or rocks or cliffs are interspersed with trees, the crevices in these rocks or the hollow trunks of trees affording sites for the wild cat's lair, where its young are produced and reared.
The shortest road across this range passes along the eastern side of the mountains, and the most difficult part is the celebrated Scironian rocks, the mythic home of the robber Sciron.
Strutt has suggested that helium in hot springs may be derived from the disintegration of common rocks at great depths.
The building of the Canadian Pacific railway through almost continuous rocks for 800 miles was one of the greatest engineering feats of modern times.