Meaning of rooster | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The tenth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
2. A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.
   Australia, Canada, Kent, New-Zealand, US
3. A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird
4. A bird or bat which roosts or is roosting
5. A bird or bat which roosts or is roosting.
6. An informer
7. An informer.
   figuratively, obsolete, slang
8. A violent or disorderly person
9. A violent or disorderly person.
   figuratively, obsolete, slang
10. A powerful, prideful, or pompous person
11. A powerful, prideful, or pompous person.
    figuratively
12. A man.
    New-Zealand, figuratively
13. A wild violet, when used in a children's game based on cockfighting.
    US, historical, regional
14. Legislation solely devised to benefit the legislators proposing it.
    US, obsolete, slang

Equivalents

Examples

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

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

“Chalk a circle for a rooster.”

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

“Ground roosters like Northern Harriers may be subject to predation by Great-horned Owls […] but still larger perchers like herons and Ospreys use snags or posts in conspicuous places but are large enough to escape aerial predators.”

“In April they played Hens and Roosters, yoking their wild white and blue violets to see which would get its head pulled off.”

“American demoralisation... has carried rooster into the halls of republican legislation, where it indicates a bill or proposed law which will remunerate the legislators.”

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