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rogue waves

rogue waves is the plural of rogue wave.

Meaning of rogue wave

Noun

rogue wave (plural rogue waves)

  1. An unexpected, dangerously large wave.
    • Then one giant crest spills green water over the bow and stops our 100-ton vehicle as though it had ploughed into a gargantuan hay bale. . . . The rogue wave our experimental 78-foot craft hit must have been well over 10 feet high.1974 June, Ben Kocivar, “75-knot ocean-going surface-effect ship”, in Popular Science, volume 204, number 6, retrieved 28 Oct 2015, page 91
    Synonyms:
    freak wave, monster wave, killer wave, episodic wave

Questions about rogue waves

What is rogue waves the plural of?
Rogue waves is the plural of rogue wave.

Words near rogue waves in the dictionary

  1. rogue regimes
  2. Rogue River
  3. rogue state
  4. rogue states
  5. rogue wave
  6. rogue waves
  7. rogue's galleries
  8. rogue's gallery
  9. rogue's march
  10. rogue's marches
  11. rogue's yarn

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