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rocks

/ɹɑks/noun, verb

rocks is a noun meaning “Money” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-O-C-K-S and has one syllable, and it appears 24 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does rocks mean?

noun

  1. 1

    slangMoney.

  2. 2

    slangvulgarTesticles.

  3. 3

    slangCrack cocaine.

    You seem a bit out of it lately, have you been smoking rocks again?

  4. 4

    plural of rock (a form of rock)

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular simple present indicative of rock (a form of rock)

    She rocks the cradle.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce rocks?

  • /ɹɒks/
  • US /ɹɑks/
  • Australia [ɹʷɔks]

Rocks has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-rocks.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

How common is rocks?

Rocks appears 24 times per million words in written English, the 3,752nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Words people confuse with rocks

Also written: rox.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).