roger

1. procedure wordbroadcastingReceived (used in radio communications to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood)

   Pilot: CESSNA TWO THREE FOUR—ROGER—OUT.

   1950 May, Flying Magazine, page 46

   Synonyms: roger that

present singular third person rogers · participle present rogering · participle past rogered · past rogered

1. transitivebroadcastingTo acknowledge by saying "roger".

   The Explorer radio operator rogered receipt of the War Room's signal.

   2011, Charles Ryan, Phoenix Strike

present singular third person rogers · participle present rogering · participle past rogered · past rogered

1. UKslangtransitivevulgarOf a man, to have sexual intercourse with (someone), especially in a rough manner.
2. UKintransitiveslangvulgarTo have sexual intercourse.

   Should not a Half-pay Officer roger for sixpence?

   1762, James Boswell, London Journal

   Synonyms: bone, bang

plural rogers

1. UKslangvulgarAn act of sexual intercourse.

   ALAN: Lynn, if I have to put back my roger with Sonja one more time, I'll be fit to burst.

   2002, I'm Alan Partridge (series 2, episode 5)

1. World War II era; joint US/RAF; World War II era; joint US/RAFradiotelephony clear-code word for the letter R.

   Synonyms: Romeo

plural Rogers

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.

   By her I claim the kingdom: she was heir / To Roger, Earl of March, who was the son / Of Edmund Mortimer.

   1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]

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   Pringle didn't say anything about Roger always being called Hodge. He sensed that Mr. Liddon wouldn't call him Hodge any more than he would call him Pringle. He was right. "Parents well, are they, Peregrine?" - - - Hodge capered about, his thumbs in his ears and his hand flapping. "Tweet, tweet, mad bird. His master chains him up like a dog. Tweet, tweet, birdie!" "I'd rather be a hunting falcon than Roger the lodger the sod," said Pringle.

   1985, Ruth Rendell, The New Girlfriend: The Fen Hall, pages 124, 127

   Details of Thunberg’s charge came as Just Stop Oil said its cofounders, Indigo Rumbelow and Roger Hallam, were arrested on Wednesday morning following dawn raids at their homes.

   2023 October 18, Damien Gayle, “Greta Thunberg charged with public order offence after London oil protest”, in The Guardian

2. rare compared to given nameA surname originating as a patronymic.
3. dialectalobsoleteThe Devil; Satan.
4. Jolly Roger (pirate flag)

   The escaped convicts who had captured the Arrow even ran up the “Roger,” the black flag with the white skull […]

   1906, Bret Harte, Overland Monthly and the Out West Magazine, page 410