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rooster

noun

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roost·er | \ ˈrü-stər

also ˈru̇-

Definition of rooster

1a : an adult male domestic chicken : cock

b : an adult male of various birds other than the domestic chicken

2 : a cocky or vain man

Examples of rooster in a Sentence

We heard the crow of a rooster.

Recent Examples on the Web The Canterbury Tales, in which Chaucer wrote about a rooster who was tricked by a fox on the 32nd of March. — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, "It’s Time to Make April Fools’ Day the Halloween of Comedy," 31 Mar. 2021 In 2010, a rooster killed its owner by slashing his jugular vein in West Bengal state. — Fox News, "Rooster kills man during banned cockfight: cops," 2 Mar. 2021 Nelson is 58 years old and white, with short hair, an earnest face, and movements that remind me of a rooster. — Katie Prout, The New Republic, "Inside the Last Men’s Hotel in Chicago," 2 Apr. 2021 The rooster is about 8 feet tall and about 4 feet wide, Shabani said. — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "'Everybody knows the rooster': Someone stole the giant rooster statue that was outside a former diner in Osseo, the owner wants it back," 31 Mar. 2021 Animal motifs are embedded in each uniform, a bald eagle for the U.S. team, a toucan for Brazil and a rooster for France. — Washington Post, "Everything you need to know about the Tokyo Olympics," 20 Feb. 2021 With him was his friend Jonas Patrick and his Buff Orpington rooster, Peep. — al, "Teen reunited with pet rooster lost at Alabama Cracker Barrel after Civil War reenactment," 11 Feb. 2021 Perhaps the most prominent of these noisy animals was Maurice, a rooster in Saint-Pierre-d’Oléron, a town on an island off France’s western coast. — New York Times, "French Roosters Now Crow With the Law Behind Them," 24 Jan. 2021 Balram, a poor, undereducated villager, feels trapped in a metaphorical rooster coop, waiting to be slaughtered. — Tribune News Service, cleveland, "‘Scarface’ meets Indian caste system in ‘The White Tiger’ (review)," 21 Jan. 2021

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