'Rock' meaning 'wear' or 'sport'

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 11:11:25PM -0400, Neal Whitman wrote:
> An advertisement on TV tonight set off my "once is weird, twice is queer"
> sensors, when it used the word 'rock' to mean "wear", which I'd briefly
> noted a few weeks ago somewhere.

[...]

> Anyone have earlier attestations [than 2003]...?

<sigh>

OED's entry for this, published in June 2007, has an
earliest quotation of 1987, from the rap song "Elementary" by
Boogie Down Productions.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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