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UK
/ɹˈɒkəz/
]
[ US /ˈɹɑkɝz/ ]
[ US /ˈɹɑkɝz/ ]
NOUN
- 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
How To Use rockers In A Sentence
- From 80s synth poppers to black-leathered stadium rockers, Depeche Mode are nothing if not resilient.
- The Toronto art-rockers have a tendency to go for the extreme, whether it is a lavishly orchestrated children's record or a rock opus telling the story of the Group
- It was a pleasant surprise when they reconvened to record 1997's For Those In Peril From The Sea, a classy collection of upbeat rockers, jangly pop tunes and introspective balladry.
- She wants to remodel her house and garden and sit on one of the white rockers on her front porch.
- Veteran rockers Queen, along with Razorlight and Simple Minds, will top the entertainment line-up.
- They jump effortlessly from new wave-tinged rockers to Queen-like bombast to stunning Beatlesque ballads to jazzy art-pop, without losing their touch with hooks that lodge themselves in your cranium and refuse to let go. Tony Sachs: One More Once: A Listen Back At The Records That Made 2010 More Bearable
- Classic drama about a young mod whose life is changed by a clash between his friends and rockers on the beaches of Brighton. The Sun
- Norwegian punk rockers blur the lines of rock, metal and punk rock with their own creation, death punk.
- I know, I know… But seriously: get very caned, watch it, and bear in mind that it's not a film about gay glam rockers that uses faerie imagery, it's a film about faeries that uses gay glam rock imagery.
- There was the icy refusal to be claimed by folkies, protesters, rockers, popsters or, indeed, anybody.
