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ROCKERS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Originally a British youth subculture that evolved out of the teddy boys in the 1960s; wore black leather jackets and jeans and boots; had greased hair and rode motorcycles and listened to rock'n'roll; were largely unskilled manual laborers
Synonyms:
bikers; rockers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("rockers" is a kind of...):
youth subculture (a minority youth culture whose distinctiveness depended largely on the social class and ethnic background of its members; often characterized by its adoption of a particular music genre)
Meronyms (members of "rockers"):
rocker (a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles)
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