rock up

English

Etymology 1

From rock (to move back and forth) + up.

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.
    • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:
      I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand.
Translations

Etymology 2

From rock (stone) + up.

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.
  2. (slang, drugs) To turn powder cocaine into crack cocaine by cooking.

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