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rocky
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What does rocky mean?
adjective
- Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks.
- Like a rock; rigid, solid.
- Having a habitat around or on rocks.
More meanings (12)
adjective
- (slang) Having little or no money; stony broke.
- Easily rocked; unstable.
- (figuratively) Encountering many problems; difficult, troubled; also, in danger or distress.
- (figuratively) Of a person: ill, or unsteady (for example, as a result of a shock).
- In the style of rock music.
- (archaic, figuratively) Not easily affected or impressed; stony; hard; obdurate; unfeeling.
proper noun
- A diminutive of the male given names Robert, Ricky, Rocco, Roch, and Rock.
- Diminutive of Rock (“surname”).
- nickame for a boxer, after Rocky Balboa, a fictional boxer in a series of films.
- (informal) The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a motion picture.
- (informal) Diminutive of Rockhampton; the regional city of Rockhampton; a city in Queensland, Australia.
- A town in Oklahoma, United States.
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IPA pronunciation
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Then an alarm gun bellowed from a ship’s bow, its deep boom reverberating in deafening tones beneath the rocky dome of Omean.
In a moment, on a steep, rocky slope opposite to him, he beheld a figure cautiously descending--a figure which was not Roderick.
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Green River is a small rocky stream with picturesque banks, and derives its name from the beautiful pale-green hue of its waters.
The badgers and other burrowers began at once to undermine his rocky fortress, while the climbers undertook to scale its perpendicular walls.
The stream here flows through a deep rocky chasm, the sides of which are in some places about four hundred feet high.