roger

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
7
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈɹɒd͡ʒə/
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/ˈɹɒd͡ʒə/ · /ˈɹɑd͡ʒɚ/ · /ˈɹɒd͡ʒ.ə/ · /ˈɹɑ.d͡ʒɚ/ · [ˈroː.dʒɐ]

Definition of roger

10 senses · 4 parts of speech · etymology included

intj

  1. Received (used in radio communications to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood)
    “Pilot: CESSNA TWO THREE FOUR—ROGER—OUT.”
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intj

  1. Received (used in radio communications to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood)
    “Pilot: CESSNA TWO THREE FOUR—ROGER—OUT.”

verb

  1. (transitive)To acknowledge by saying "roger".
    “The Explorer radio operator rogered receipt of the War Room's signal.”
  2. (UK, slang, transitive, vulgar)Of a man, to have sexual intercourse with (someone), especially in a rough manner.
  3. (UK, intransitive, slang, vulgar)To have sexual intercourse.
    “1762, James Boswell, London Journal Should not a Half-pay Officer roger for sixpence?”

noun

  1. (UK, slang, vulgar)An act of sexual intercourse.
    “ALAN: Lynn, if I have to put back my roger with Sonja one more time, I'll be fit to burst.”
  2. radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter R.

name

  1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
    “By her I claim the kingdom: she was heir / To Roger, Earl of March, who was the son / Of Edmund Mortimer.”
    “Pringle didn't say anything about Roger always being called Hodge. He sensed that Mr. Liddon wouldn't call him Hodge any more than he would call him Pringle. He was right. "Parents well, are they, Peregrine?" - - - Hodge capered about, his thumbs in his ears and his hand flapping. "Tweet, tweet, mad bird. His master chains him up like a dog. Tweet, tweet, birdie!" "I'd rather be a hunting falcon than Roger the lodger the sod," said Pringle.”
    “Details of Thunberg’s charge came as Just Stop Oil said its cofounders, Indigo Rumbelow and Roger Hallam, were arrested on Wednesday morning following dawn raids at their homes.”
  2. A surname originating as a patronymic.
  3. (dialectal, obsolete)The Devil; Satan.
  4. Jolly Roger (pirate flag)
    “The escaped convicts who had captured the Arrow even ran up the “Roger,” the black flag with the white skull […]”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Roger, used circa 1940 in UK and US military communication to represent "R" when spelling out a word. "R" is the first letter in received, used to acknowledge understanding a message. "Roger" for "received" was in spoken usage in air traffic radio parlance by 1950.

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