单词 | boat rocker |
释义 | > as lemmasboat rocker boat rocker n. a person who rocks a boat; also figurative (cf. to rock the boat at rock v.1 Phrases 2). ΚΠ 1880 Marion (Ohio) Daily Star 9 June The genial man that rocks a rowboat to scare the inmates. The boat-rocker looms up the grandest when there are some women in the boat. 1965 Social Probl. 13 225/2 A large majority who more or less conform to a broad normative standard and a fraction of ‘boat-rockers’ who deviate grossly from this standard. 2011 Sc. Express (Nexis) 2 Mar. 16 Some more boat rockers are urgently needed to shake up Scotland's more cosy bureaucracies. < as lemmas |
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