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

[Laurence Horn]

> On Oct 22, 2019, at 5:39 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> This has been around for a number of years and is common on entertainment
> TV.

Including one cite from an episode of American Dad in 2011 that’s sort of referenced here:
http://onlineslangdictionary.com/thesaurus/words+meaning+to+wear+clothing.html
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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> 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...
>> 
>> ========
>> 
>> (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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