# rocks

Pronunciation: say "ROKS" US /ɹɑks/, UK /ɹɒks/, AUS /ɹɔks/

## Noun

1. Plural of rock. — plural of rock
   - Simple: Plural of rock. Use this form when you mean more than one rock.
   - _Geologists labeled each of the rocks they pulled from the trench._
   - _Waves had worn the jagged rocks into rounded shapes over centuries._
3. Money, especially cash. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Money, thought of as cash you can spend.
   - _By the end of the night he'd lost most of his rocks at the card table._
   - _They needed serious rocks to get the business off the ground._
4. Crack cocaine. *(slang)*
   - Simple: Crack cocaine, a strong and illegal drug.
   - _The raid turned up a stash of rocks wrapped in plastic under the floorboards._
   - _Dealers cut the supply into rocks small enough to sell on the street._
5. The testicles. *(slang)*
   - Simple: A man's testicles, the two round organs below the penis.
   - _A stray elbow in the scrum got him square in the rocks._
   - _He winced and grabbed his rocks after the ball took a bad bounce._

## Verb

2. Third-person singular simple present of rock. — third-person singular simple present indicative of rock
   - Simple: Third-person singular simple present of rock. Use it with he, she, it, or a singular noun such as the boat.
   - _The ferry rocks hard whenever a large wake hits its side._
   - _The grandmother rocks her chair slowly on the porch each evening._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/rocks (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).