/ˈɹɒd͡ʒə/, /ˈɹɑd͡ʒɚ/
OriginFrom Roger, used circa 1940 in UK and US military communication to represent "R" when spelling out a word. "R" is the first letter in received, used to acknowledge understanding a message. "Roger" for "received" was in spoken usage in air traffic radio parlance by 1950.
- Received (used in radio communications to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood)
“Pilot: CESSNA TWO THREE FOUR—ROGER—OUT.”
- transitiveTo acknowledge by saying "roger".
“The Explorer radio operator rogered receipt of the War Room's signal.”
- radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter R.
- 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.”
“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, Per”
“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.”
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
- dialectal, obsoleteThe Devil; Satan.
- Jolly Roger (pirate flag)
“The escaped convicts who had captured the Arrow even ran up the “Roger,” the black flag with the white skull […]”
Formsrogers(present, singular, third-person) · rogering(participle, present) · rogered(participle, past) · rogered(past) · Rogers(plural)