( v ) To be excellent, outstanding. About midnight the party was really rocking out.
( n ) A diamond or other precious stone. Whenever Arlene complains about being a kept woman, Mortimer gives her another rock and she shuts up.
( n ) Fast music, rock and roll. I don’t like jazz or rap–I’m a straight rock guy.
( v ) To be excellent, outstanding. It rocks that the library is going to be open on weekends.
( v ) To dance wildly to the rock and roll music of the 60s and 70s. Man, I really dig this music; let’s rock!
( np ) Someone who takes up to much of the road. I can’t pass because the driver ahead of me is a road hog.
( n ) The end of a marijuana cigarette. There were a bunch of roaches in his ashtray.
( adj ) Luxurious. She expected to be taken to a ritzy uptown club, not to a dive in the Bronx.
( adj ) Excellent, outstanding. Let me tell you, it was a rip-snorting party.
( n ) Something excellent, outstanding. His party last night was a rip- snorter.