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ocker

[ ok-er ]

noun

  1. an uncultured Australian male.
  2. an uncouth, offensive male chauvinist.


adjective

  1. of or relating to such a person.
  2. typically Australian.

ocker

/ ˈɒə /

noun

  1. often capital an uncultivated or boorish Australian
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. typical of such a person
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of ocker1

First recorded in 1970–75; after Ocker, a character in an Australian television series
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of ocker1

C20: of uncertain origin
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Stella Ocker, a postdoctoral fellow at Caltech and the Carnegie Observatories, says astronomers are good at observing things far off or inside our solar bubble, but struggle to see what’s in between.

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Carol Ocker, who manages the couple's philanthropic giving, did not respond to a request for comment on Sunday.

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“Our team at Little Goose Dam took appropriate actions to remove the turbine from service, assess and contain the leak,” said Paul Ocker, operations division chief for the Corp’s Walla Walla District said.

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Board on Geographic Names will also review the change, said Washington Department of Natural Resources spokesperson Kenny Ocker.

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"It's very faint and monotone, because it is in a narrow frequency bandwidth," Stella Koch Ocker, a doctoral student in the Department of Astronomy and Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, told Salon at the time about the study of which she was lead author.

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