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Rooster

//ˈɹustəɹ// name, noun, slang

Proper Noun

1
The tenth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.

Noun

1
A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird. Australia, Canada, Kent, New-Zealand, US
"Their other dish […] contain'd a number of roast fowls—half a dozen, we suppose, & all roosters at this season no doubt."
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adult male chicken wordnet
3
A bird or bat which roosts or is roosting.
"The more leisured flight of the roosters [sc. starlings] was in contrast to the steady procession of the migrants."
4
An informer. figuratively, obsolete, slang
5
A violent or disorderly person. figuratively, obsolete, slang

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A powerful, prideful, or pompous person. figuratively
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A man. New-Zealand, figuratively
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A wild violet, when used in a children's game based on cockfighting. US, historical, regional
"In April they played Hens and Roosters, yoking their wild white and blue violets to see which would get its head pulled off."
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Legislation solely devised to benefit the legislators proposing it. US, obsolete, slang
"American demoralisation... has carried rooster into the halls of republican legislation, where it indicates a bill or proposed law which will remunerate the legislators."

From roost + -er. In the regions where it is used, displaced cock through taboo avoidance.

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