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Definition of rooster
1a : an adult male domestic chicken : cockb : an adult male of various birds other than the domestic chicken
2 : a cocky or vain man
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Examples of rooster in a Sentence
We heard the crow of a rooster.
Recent Examples of rooster from the Web
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Turkeys trot by, flying squirrels glide into trees, a coyote stalks a rooster pheasant.
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Read more: Also known as rooster sauce, sriracha is a bright-red hot sauce made from red chili peppers, sugar, salt, garlic and vinegar.
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Read more: Also known as rooster sauce, sriracha is a bright-red hot sauce made from red chili peppers, sugar, salt, garlic and vinegar.
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Meanwhile, an inkwell is topped by France's national animal, the Gallic rooster.
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Kane County has an ordinance regulating chickens, but did not define or regulate roosters and other fowl that residents have complained cause sleep disruptions, VanKerkhoff said.
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Before his first at-bat Thursday afternoon in the homestand finale against the Toronto Blue Jays, Gomez came to the plate to the sounds of roosters crowing.
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A: The restaurant’s named after the Red Dunn, which is a painting of a rooster by a semi-famous artist in Detroit.
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Workers discovered the cages were filled with ducklings, quail, parakeets, bunnies, love birds, chickens, roosters and finches.
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First Known Use of rooster
1772
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