Midway between a boulder and a stone

verb

1. To move back and forth in or as if in a cradle

   "She gently rocked the baby to sleep."

2. To cause to sway back and forth

   "a boat rocked by the waves"

3. To rouse to excitement (as by performing rock music)

   "The band rocked the crowd."

4. To wear, display, or feature (something striking, distinctive, or attractive)

   "Carly Patterson is rocking a tight yellow T-shirt with jeans and high wooden sandals, belting her lyrics into a microphone."

5. To become moved backward and forward under often violent impact

   "The tower rocked under the impact of the hurricane."

6. To move forward at a steady pace
7. To sing, dance to, or play rock music

   "The band was rocking all night long."

8. To be extremely enjoyable, pleasing, or effective

   "her new car rocks"

noun

1. A rocking movement
2. Popular music usually played on electronically amplified instruments and characterized by a persistent heavily accented beat, repetition of simple phrases, and often country, folk, and blues elements

noun

1. A large mass of stone forming a cliff, promontory, or peak
2. A concreted mass of stony material
3. Consolidated or unconsolidated solid mineral matter
4. Something that threatens or causes disaster
5. A flavored stick candy with color running through
6. Rock candy
7. Gem
8. Diamond
9. A small crystallized mass of crack cocaine
10. Crack
11. The ball used in basketball

    "Who's going to fight through screens or risk lumps and lacerations lunging into the stands after the rock?"

noun

1. Distaff
2. The wool or flax on a distaff

geographical name

1. River 300 miles (483 kilometers) long in southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois flowing south and southwest into the Mississippi River at the city of Rock Island

noun

1. Popular music usually played on electronically amplified instruments and characterized by a persistent heavily accented beat, repetition of simple phrases, and often country, folk, and blues elements rock

   "If many older people had been suspicious of the jukebox in the early fifties, they were even more affronted by the success of rock and roll after 1954."

verb

1. To perform or dance to rock and roll music

   "Mark headed off to Liverpool over the weekend, where he did a little rocking and rolling."

2. To start out or get going energetically

   "He was wide awake and ready to rock and roll at 5:00 A.M."

noun

1. Rocker

noun

1. A brown spotted sunfish (Ambloplites rupestris) found especially in the upper Mississippi River valley and Great Lakes region

adjective

1. Being the very lowest

   "rock-bottom prices"