Usually means: Uneven, stony surface; difficult situation.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. rocky: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rocky: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rocky, rocky: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rocky: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rocky: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rocky, rocky: Wordnik
  7. rocky: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Rocky, rocky: Wiktionary
  9. rocky: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rocky: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rocky: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Rocky, rocky: Dictionary.com
  13. rocky: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. rocky: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Rocky (The Amazing World of Gumball), Rocky (comic strip), Rocky (disambiguation), Rocky (film), Rocky (film series), Rocky (nickname), Rocky (song), Rocky (soundtrack), Rocky (upcoming film), Rocky (video game), Rocky: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Rocky: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. rocky: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. rocky: Rhymezone
  19. rocky: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. rocky: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. rocky: Free Dictionary
  22. rocky: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. rocky: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Rocky: Who2
  25. rocky: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. rocky: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. rocky: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rocky, rocky, Rocky: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Rocky: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See rockier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks.
adjective:  Like a rock; rigid, solid.
adjective:  (Of an animal or plant) Having a habitat around or on rocks.
adjective:  (figuratively, archaic) Not easily affected or impressed; stony; hard; obdurate; unfeeling.
adjective:  Easily rocked; unstable.
adjective:  (figuratively)
adjective:  Encountering many problems; difficult, troubled; also, in danger or distress.
adjective:  (originally US) Of a person: ill, or unsteady (for example, as a result of a shock).
adjective:  In the style of rock music.
noun:  A diminutive of the male given names Rocco, Roch, or Rock
noun:  Rocky Balboa, a fictional boxer in a series of films.
noun:  The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a motion picture.
noun:  A placename
noun:  A town in Oklahoma, United States.

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