Other forms: rockers
A rocker is a performer or fan of rock music. An old rocker, a rocker jacket, rockers and mods.
In Britain the rockers were the leather-jacketed rivals of the mods in the 1960s, and their seaside clashes made the newspapers of the day. Off your rocker means mad, and a rocker is also the curved piece under a rocking chair.
1nounrockerA performer or fan of rock music.
“My dad was a rocker in the eighties, with long hair and a leather jacket.”
rocker is a person.
Rock plus -er. The musical sense came in the 1950s from rock and roll; the older sense named the curved base of a cradle.
Middle English
rokker
English, today
rocker
From Middle English rokker, rockere, rokkere, equivalent to rock + er.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA