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  • proper noun A male given name, pet form of Rocco.
  • proper noun Rocky Balboa, a fictional boxer played by Sylvester Stallone in a series of films.
  • proper noun The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
  • proper noun informal, Australia The regional city of Rockhampton, Queensland.

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    As Russian warships, Medvedev, visit Venezuela, the Maduro/Flores 'Rocky Horror Show' becomes tragi-comedy! 2008

  • Missouri enters the rocky mountains to the North of 45° - we did take the liberty of placing his discoveries or at least the Southern extremity of them about a degree further N. in the sketh which we sent on to the government this spring mearly from the Indian information of the bearing from Fort Mandan of the entrance of the Missouri into the Rocky

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • Wang - who goes by the nickname "Rocky," because the Chinese character for his name is a picture of three stones - grew up in Shanghai.

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  • Wang - who goes by the nickname "Rocky," because the Chinese character for his name is a picture of three stones - grew up in Shanghai.

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  • Wang - who goes by the nickname "Rocky," because the Chinese character for his name is a picture of three stones - grew up in Shanghai.

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  • Wang - who goes by the nickname "Rocky," because the Chinese character for his name is a picture of three stones - grew up in Shanghai.

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  • Wang - who goes by the nickname "Rocky," because the Chinese character for his name is a picture of three stones - grew up in Shanghai.

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  • Wang - who goes by the nickname "Rocky," because the Chinese character for his name is a picture of three stones - grew up in Shanghai.

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  • Wang - who goes by the nickname "Rocky," because the Chinese character for his name is a picture of three stones - grew up in Shanghai.

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  • Wang - who goes by the nickname "Rocky," because the Chinese character for his name is a picture of three stones - grew up in Shanghai.

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