Usually means: Male chicken that crows loudly.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. rooster: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rooster: Merriam-Webster
  3. rooster: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rooster: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rooster: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rooster: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rooster, rooster: Wordnik
  8. rooster: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Rooster, rooster: Wiktionary
  10. rooster: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rooster: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rooster: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Rooster, rooster: Dictionary.com
  14. rooster: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. rooster: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Rooster (TV film), Rooster (Zodiac), Rooster (album), Rooster (band), Rooster (disambiguation), Rooster (potato), Rooster (song), Rooster (zodiac), Rooster, The Rooster: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Rooster: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. rooster: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. rooster: Rhymezone
  20. Rooster, rooster (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. ROOSTER: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. rooster: FreeDictionary.org
  23. rooster: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. rooster: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. rooster: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rooster: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. rooster: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. rooster: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Rooster: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Rooster, The Rooster: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See roostering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (Canada, US, Kent, Australia, New Zealand) A male domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) or other gallinaceous bird.
noun:  A bird or bat which roosts or is roosting.
noun:  (figuratively, obsolete slang) An informer.
noun:  (figuratively, obsolete slang) A violent or disorderly person.
noun:  (figuratively) A powerful, prideful, or pompous person.
noun:  (figuratively, originally US slang, now chiefly New Zealand) A man.
noun:  (regional US, historical) A wild violet, when used in a children's game based on cockfighting.
noun:  (obsolete US slang) Legislation solely devised to benefit the legislators proposing it.
noun:  The tenth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.

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