"rock out" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-rock out.ogg [Australia] Forms: rocks out [present, singular, third-person], rocking out [participle, present], rocked out [participle, past], rocked out [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} rock out (third-person singular simple present rocks out, present participle rocking out, simple past and past participle rocked out)
  1. (slang, intransitive) To party to or play rock music, punk rock, grunge or heavy metal. Tags: intransitive, slang Derived forms: rock out with one's cock out
    Sense id: en-rock_out-en-verb-QU2EtVww Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (out)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for rock out meaning in English (1.7kB)

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