Definition of rock up

rock up    

verb

• to arrive, especially unexpectedly or at an unexpected time.

  You can't just rock up at midnight and expect me to come out with you.

  Last edited on May 29 2011. Submitted by Kim M. from Sydney, NSW, Australia on Jan 19 2003.

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Other terms relating to 'rock':
acid rock	Definitions include: a genre of psychedelic rock music.
between a rock and a hard place	Definitions include: in an impossible situation.
box of rocks	Definitions include: an unintelligent person.
butt rock	Definitions include: derogatory term for heavy metal music, usually from the 1980s.
buttrocker	Definitions include: a buttrocker is someone who listens to buttrock (white trashy glam rock) and is pretty much white trash.
crack rock	Definitions include: something beyond desirable - something needed constantly.
crib rocker	Definitions include: A Person That Like Girls That Are Younger Then They Are
dirt rocker	Definitions include: Someone who lacks cleanliness, good manners, and employment.
dumb as a box of rocks	Definitions include: extremely unintelligent.
dumb as a rock	Definitions include: very unintelligent.
get (one's) rocks off	Definitions include: to enjoy in a sexual sense.
hit rock bottom	Definitions include: to be at one's lowest point in life.
kick rocks	Definitions include: to go away, to get kicked out
not know one's *ss from a hot rock	Definitions include: if someone' doesn't know his ass from a hot rock, s/he is ignorant and doesn't know anything.
off (one's) rocker	Definitions include: crazy, out of control.
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Other terms relating to 'up':
6 up	Definitions include: a warning that one or more law enforcement officers are near.
ace up (one's) sleeve	Definitions include: a secret advantage.
act up	Definitions include: to misbehave.
AFU	Definitions include: acronym of "all fucked up."
all done up	Definitions include: well dressed, wearing makeup, etc.
all up in	Definitions include: doing something emphatically.
amped up	Definitions include: energetic due to consumption of a stimulant.
amp up	Definitions include: to increase.
ante up	Definitions include: to contribute one's share.
arse up	Definitions include: to mess up.
as f*cked up as a football bat	Definitions include: 1. To be highly intoxicated on drugs and/or alcohol
*ss up	Definitions include: to make something like ass.
ate up	Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird".
ate up with stupid	Definitions include: stupid.
ate up with the dumb *ss	Definitions include: strange / stupid.
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