Rooster

Quick meaning: Rooster is a noun meaning (Canada, US, Kent, Australia, New Zealand) A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.

Meaning

(Canada, US, Kent, Australia, New Zealand) A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.

More Meanings

1. A bird or bat which roosts or is roosting.
2. (figuratively, obsolete slang) An informer.
3. (figuratively, obsolete slang) A violent or disorderly person.
4. (figuratively) A powerful, prideful, or pompous person.
5. (figuratively, originally US slang, now chiefly New Zealand) A man.
6. (regional US, historical) A wild violet, when used in a children's game based on cockfighting.
7. (obsolete, US, slang, uncountable) Legislation solely devised to benefit the legislators proposing it.

Example Sentences

Chalk a circle for a rooster.

The produce of two hens and a cock, or rooster, as the Yankees term that bird.

The more leisured flight of the roosters [sc. starlings] was in contrast to the steady procession of the migrants.

Their other dish […] contain'd a number of roast fowls—half a dozen, we suppose, & all roosters at this season no doubt.

Word Forms

• roosters
• roo

Synonyms for rooster

Depending on context, synonyms include cock, informant, brawler, man.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cock, poultry, chicken, bird, pig, cat.

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