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

[Wilson Gray]

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

rockin - Urban Dictionary
https://www.urbandictionary.com › define › term=rockin'
He's really rockin' that new hat of his! He's really rockin' ... little
strapless dress 4- dayuum i thought that dress was ugly as hell, but look @
her rockin that thang!

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 5:39 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > ========
> >
> > (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...
> >
> > ========
> >
> > (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 -
> >
> > ========
> >
> > Mark Mandel
> >
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