[Ads-l] Antedating of "Rocker" (Rock Music Performer or Fan)

[Shapiro, Fred]

rocker (OED, 6.c., 1958)

1956 Ottawa Citizen 11 May 43/1 (ProQuest)  SHOTGUN KELLY AND HIS ROCKERS.

1956 Buffalo Evening News 13 June V. 68/6 (GenealogyBank)  Allen disclosed he has had demands that he cancel out the 21-year-old "rocker" [Elvis Presley].

Fred Shapiro

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