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rocks up

rocks up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rock up.

Meaning of rock up

Verb (1)

rock up (third-person singular simple present rocks up, present participle rocking up, simple past and past participle rocked up)

  1. (informal) To turn up at a place or function spontaneously or unexpectedly, without notice or prior warning.
    • I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand.2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57
    Synonyms:
    show up

Verb (2)

rock up (third-person singular simple present rocks up, present participle rocking up, simple past and past participle rocked up)

  1. To work one's way vertically up a chimney or cleft using a rocking movement.
  2. (slang) To turn powder cocaine into crack cocaine by cooking.

Questions about rocks up

What is rocks up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Rocks up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rock up.

Words near rocks up in the dictionary

  1. rocks on
  2. rocks out
  3. rocks out with one's cock out
  4. rocks someone's world
  5. rocks the boat
  6. rocks up
  7. rocksalt
  8. rockscape
  9. rockscapes
  10. rockshaft
  11. rockshafts

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