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rock
/rɑk/
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  1. verb
    move back and forth or sideways
    "the ship was rocking" "She rocked back and forth on her feet"

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    shake sway
  2. noun
    hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)

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    rock candy
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    candy confect
  3. noun
    pitching dangerously to one side

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    careen sway tilt
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    lurch pitch pitching
  4. noun
    material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust
    "that mountain is solid rock"

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    stone
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    stuff material
  5. verb
    cause to move back and forth
    "rock the cradle" "rock the baby"

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    sway
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    displace move
  6. noun
    United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)

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    john rock
  7. noun
    a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western
    "rock is a generic term for the range of styles that evolved out of rock'n'roll."

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    rock'n'roll rock-and-roll rock 'n' roll rock and roll rock music
  8. noun
    a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
    "he threw a rock at me"

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    stone
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    natural object
  9. noun
    (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable
    "he was her rock during the crisis" "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church"
    type of:
    good person
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