# roger

Pronunciation: US say "ROJ-er" /ˈɹɑd͡ʒɚ/; UK say "ROJ-uh" /ˈɹɒd͡ʒə/

## Interjection

1. Used over the radio to confirm that a message has come through and been understood.
   - Simple: Said over a radio to show that you got a message and understood it.
   - _“Tower, Cessna four-five-two, roger, climbing to three thousand feet.”_
   - _When the dispatcher read out the new address, the officer keyed her radio and said, “Roger, en route.”_

## Verb

2. To acknowledge something, especially a radio message, by answering “roger.”
   - Simple: To answer a radio message by saying “roger” to show you got it.
   - _The co-pilot rogered the clearance and read back the new altitude._
   - _Ground crews must roger every change to the landing schedule before acting on it._
3. Of a man, to have sexual intercourse with someone, typically with an implication of roughness. *(slang, UK)*
   - Simple: To have sex with someone, said of a man, often in a rough way.
   - _In the old farce, the vicar walks in just as the squire is rogering the cook in the pantry._
   - _After three pints he would boast that he could still roger anyone in the village._
4. To have sexual intercourse. *(slang, UK)*
   - Simple: To have sex.
   - _The guesthouse walls were so thin that the whole floor heard the couple in room six rogering until dawn._
   - _Honestly, those two do nothing but roger and eat takeaways all weekend._

## Noun

5. An act of sexual intercourse. *(slang, UK)*
   - Simple: An act of having sex.
   - _He winked and said he was off home for a quick roger before the match._
   - _Between the kids and the night shifts, a roger is a rare event in our house these days._

## Origin

**Meanings 1–2** — From the name Roger, used around 1940 in UK and US military communication to stand for the letter R when spelling out words. R is the first letter of received, used to acknowledge that a message was understood, and by 1950 “Roger” for “received” was in spoken use in air traffic radio.
**Meanings 3–5** — Possibly from Old High German Hrotger, by way of Shelta roger.

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