rooster
IPA: rˈustɝ
noun
- (Canada, US, Kent, Australia, New Zealand) A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.
- A bird or bat which roosts or is roosting.
- (figuratively, obsolete slang) An informer.
- (figuratively, obsolete slang) A violent or disorderly person.
- (figuratively) A powerful, prideful, or pompous person.
- (figuratively, originally US slang, now chiefly New Zealand) A man.
- (regional US, historical) A wild violet, when used in a children's game based on cockfighting.
- (obsolete US slang) Legislation solely devised to benefit the legislators proposing it.
- The tenth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
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Examples of "rooster" in Sentences
- Which is the rooster, which is the hen
- The owl is nocturnal, and the rooster diurnal.
- It is the southern extension of the Rooster River.
- A rooster does not lay an egg on the top of the roof.
- The rooster is a symbol for watchfulness and alertness.
- The body was untouched by both the rooster and the dog.
- Brad Fittler is the current coach of the Sydney Roosters.
- He was looking for the picture of the rooster and could not find it.
- The piano plays a theme based on the crowing of a rooster's Cock a Doodle Doo.
- The rooster sings, the rooster sings With a cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck.