roc
noun
a bird of enormous size and strength.
roc
American
[rok]
/ rɒk /
noun
Arabian Mythology.
ROC
1
British
abbreviation
roc
2
British
/ rɒk /
noun
Etymology
Origin of roc
1570–80; < Arabic rukhkh, probably < Persian rukh; see rook 2
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The bright young men hit on the roc, huge bird that took Sindbad's baggy pants in its beak and carried him across mountains to drop him into a gully full of diamonds.
From Time Magazine Archive
But certainly the Arabian roc, which carried off elephants for its nestlings as an eagle rapes a mouse, would shy from the monstrous thing U. S. engineers propose to build for $5,000,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
The name of the latest roc of transportation is Curtiss-Wright Corp.
From Time Magazine Archive
Scholars suspect that Aepyornis titan may have given rise to the legend of a great bird called the roc, which is told in the Arabian Nights.
From Time Magazine Archive
He too\ the mountain roc\ to carve into inking stones.
From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin
Now aged 20, she hopes to pursue a career in education and is currently training to become a teaching assistant at a vocational college in The Hague, ROC Mondriaan.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Over the past decade, they have been known as OAR, then ROC and now AIN.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
How has Jay-Z’s partnership between ROC Nation and the NFL, which brought artists like Rihanna, Eminem, and The Weeknd to the halftime show, impacted its evolution—both positively and negatively?
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2025
ROC will receive bronze medals, although no athletes were in Paris to accept them because the ROC is suspended from participating in these Olympics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024
It showed an artist’s colorful rendering of the new ROC, with huge shopping complexes, smiling people in sunglasses toting oversize shopping bags, a Corporation oil rig shining from the blue water in the background.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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