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roosters

roosters is the plural of rooster.

Meaning of rooster

Noun

rooster (countable and uncountable, plural roosters)

  1. (Australia, Canada, Kent, New Zealand, US) A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.
    • Their other dish […] contain'd a number of roast fowls—half a dozen, we suppose, & all roosters at this season no doubt.1772 March 14, A.G. Winslow, Diary
    Synonyms:
    cock
  2. A bird or bat which roosts or is roosting.
    • The more leisured flight of the roosters [sc. starlings] was in contrast to the steady procession of the migrants.1949, British Birds, 42, p. 323
  3. (figuratively, obsolete, slang) An informer.
    Synonyms:
    informant
  4. (figuratively, obsolete, slang) A violent or disorderly person.
    Synonyms:
    brawler
  5. (figuratively) A powerful, prideful, or pompous person.
    Synonyms:
    important person, cock of the walk, cock of the roost
  6. (New Zealand, figuratively) A man.
    Synonyms:
    man

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Phrases with roosters

Questions about roosters

What is roosters the plural of?
Roosters is the plural of rooster.

Words near roosters in the dictionary

  1. roosterish
  2. roosterless
  3. roosterlike
  4. roosterly
  5. roosterness
  6. roosters
  7. roostership
  8. roosterships
  9. roostertail
  10. roostertailed
  11. roostertailing

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