[Ads-l] to rock, vt = to wear, to sport

[Jonathan Lighter]

This has been around for a number of years and is common on entertainment
TV.

Weirdly, I don't see it in Urban Dictionary.

HDAS has no exx., so I must have encountered it after 2007 or so. I
associate it with hip-hop.

JL



On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 1:33 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> From a thread in the newsgroup of a group I belong to. Names omitted for
> obvious reasons.
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> (Female writes:)
> any suggestions for places that might have naturally curly wigs? I mean,
> I'd love to rock the waist-length Sandra Bullock look, but...
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> (Male writes:)
> one of my colleagues in Los Angeles who is now cancer free and back at work
> - sometimes rocking a wig and sometimes not.
> ...
> [Female film director] has more than owned - nee rocked - her baldness -
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> Mark Mandel
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