rooster

noun roost·er \ ˈrü-stər also ˈru̇- \

|Updated on: 12 Aug 2018

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Definition of rooster

1 a : an adult male domestic chicken : cock

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

2 : a cocky or vain man

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We heard the crow of a rooster.

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The group of birds is thought to include at least 38 roosters along with dozens of hens and chicks, Johnson said.

— ian cummings, kansascity, "Kansas City animal control seizes 134 birds in cockfighting investigation | The Kansas City Star," 18 Apr. 2018
Mockingbirds chirp, roosters crow and the evening news blares in Spanish. Sundays, church bells ring and the air is all carne asada.

— esmeralda bermudez, latimes.com, "An artist finds his subject in the hills of East L.A.," 14 Apr. 2018
Outside the window though, there's no rooster crowing or sun creeping over a bucolic field: Sonia lives in a two-bedroom apartment in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

— tracy saelinger, Woman's Day, "Gardening Led This Veteran to a New Life of Hope and Healing," 11 July 2018
Sheep graze literally next door to the warehouses, and the sound of roosters crowing fills the air as the distillery wakes up and rumbles into action.

— jonah flicker, USA TODAY, "Explore four scenic distilleries in the U.K.," 22 June 2018
Many of the roosters had been subjected to violent fighting and were found wearing steel blades in order to further inflict injury.

— daniela sternitzky-di napoli, Houston Chronicle, "Roosters wearing steel blades rescued from Crosby cockfighting ring," 7 Apr. 2018
Working with Walt Disney, the 7-Up Company created a cartoon mascot rooster named Fresh-Up Freddie, who dressed in trendy attire of the day and drove a sports car.

— philip potempa, Post-Tribune, "7-Up cake? Bubbly history of the lemon-lime soda includes popular retro recipes," 6 July 2018
Just before Coolidge’s inauguration in 1925, Edmund Starling, Coolidge’s Secret Service Chief, moseyed down into the basement to find his new charge trying to stuff a black cat into a crate with a rooster.

— katherine j. wu, Smithsonian, "For His Patriotic Birthday, Five Facts About Calvin Coolidge," 2 July 2018
Put simply, today’s machine-learning programs can’t tell whether a crowing rooster makes the sun rise, or the other way around.

— judea pearl and, WSJ, "AI Can’t Reason Why," 18 May 2018

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: an adult male chicken

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noun roost·er \ ˈrü-stər \

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