"rock up" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: rocks up [present, singular, third-person], rocking up [participle, present], rocked up [participle, past], rocked up [past]
Etymology: From rock (“to move back and forth”) + up. Etymology templates: {{af|en|rock|up|nocat=1|t1=to move back and forth}} rock (“to move back and forth”) + up Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} rock up (third-person singular simple present rocks up, present participle rocking up, simple past and past participle rocked up)
  1. (informal) To turn up at a place or function spontaneously or unexpectedly, without notice or prior warning. Tags: informal Translations (to turn up unexpectedly): ilmestyä paikalle (Finnish), pöllähtää paikalle (Finnish), заявля́ться (zajavljátʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), заяви́ться (zajavítʹsja) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-rock_up-en-verb-4Ty1JqMF
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Forms: rocks up [present, singular, third-person], rocking up [participle, present], rocked up [participle, past], rocked up [past]
Etymology: From rock (“stone”) + up. Etymology templates: {{af|en|rock|up|nocat=1|t1=stone}} rock (“stone”) + up Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} rock up (third-person singular simple present rocks up, present participle rocking up, simple past and past participle rocked up)
  1. (climbing) To work one's way vertically up a chimney or cleft using a rocking movement. Categories (topical): Climbing
    Sense id: en-rock_up-en-verb-2rRNbbR9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 26 65 9 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 32 54 14 Topics: climbing, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
  2. (slang, drugs) To turn powder cocaine into crack cocaine by cooking. Tags: slang
    Sense id: en-rock_up-en-verb-lL3hvbve Topics: drugs, medicine, pharmacology, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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