the verb "to rock"

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After viewing School of Rock on DVD last weekend I realized that I rarely if ever use the term "rock" as a verb. Is this a generational thing? A reflection of my literary pretensions? A verbal tic or grammatical quirk? I dunno, I just hate the way it sounds (the verb not the music). SO: is rock a noun, a verb, an adjective or what?
(the movie was OK, funny enought but it failed to ah, rock my world. How many lazy many film critics wrote "this movie rocks"?)

― lovebug starski, Thursday, 1 April 2004 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

ignore the typos and repetitions...insomnia is my inspiration here.
does "to rock" grate on anybody else's ears? or is just me?

― lovebug starski, Thursday, 1 April 2004 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

grates on mine. can't stand it. but there's a lot of youth-speak -turned-media-speak that makes me cringe.

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 1 April 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I only like it when attached to the phrase "...like a truckload of fucking pigs!"

― Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 1 April 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmmm.

I'm not sure about that.

Is the word "fucking" in the expression "...like a truckload of fucking pigs!" being used as an adjective or as an adverb?

And are those "pigs" as in the pink, squealing creatures that so kindly and thoughtfully lay down their lives to provide us with ham, gammon, chops, bacon and sausages; or as in a derogetary term for members of the police constabulary?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 1 April 2004 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Fucking is, of course, a verb. Have you ever seen a pig fuck? Now think about how that would rock the axels off a truck. I mean it quite literally.

― Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 1 April 2004 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Pigs rock fucking or not tho

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 1 April 2004 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Rock is such a versatile word! Noun, verb, adjective (this "rock" music), exclamation ("ROCK!"), etc.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 1 April 2004 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

the word "rock"..er....rocks when it's used in the sentence : "it wasn't a rock, it was a rock lobster".

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Thursday, 1 April 2004 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

there's a good mark s thread on this. will hunt for it now.

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 1 April 2004 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

mark s ROCKS KASHMIR!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 1 April 2004 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

oh no, the thread I had in mind was about rock as anything OTHER than a verb

but here it is anyway:
Who first described who as "rock"?

see also:
Is Elvis Costello rock? (and related threads)

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 1 April 2004 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

"rocks like a truckload of fucking pigs" is acceptable.

― lovebug starski, Thursday, 1 April 2004 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

How acceptable is "fucks like a rocking truckload of pigs"?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 1 April 2004 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

You know what I hate? 'Rock', 'Rock and Roll' or 'Punk Rock' as an adjective.

― Arthur Cravan, Friday, 2 April 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm working on popularizing the use of "intelligent dance music" as a verb.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 2 April 2004 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I certainly intelligent dance music your endeavour, curt1s.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 2 April 2004 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw Le Mepris and it grimed, for realz!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 April 2004 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

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