rockaway

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Recent Examples of rockaway The show culminated with Jon shouting out a string of moves — the A-Town stomp, the muscle, the thunder clap, the rockaway — as more dancers flooded the stage. Jason Lamphier, EW.com, 12 Feb. 2024
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Noun
  • Already open in the development are a seafood market and restaurant, a bike and surrey rental service, the LA Maritime Institute and whale watching and harbor cruises.
    Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026
  • The clanging warning that a family in a four-wheel surrey pedicab is rolling up behind you.
    Tim Ebner, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
Noun
  • Acceptable modes of transit include a 1969 Mini Cooper, any model of Range Rover that Prince Philip once drove, or a hackney carriage.
    Simon Webster, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Feinberg is still driving under the same hackney carriage medallion that he was issued in 1975, according to police.
    Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2018
Noun
  • The passengers had to self-eject from the speeding cab.
    ANDREA SACHS THE WASHINGTON POST, Arkansas Online, 28 June 2026
  • Firefighters extinguished a blaze that had consumed the truck’s cab and trailer, as well as debris along the railroad.
    Caroline Silva, AJC.com, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • The royal couple was transported to the senate in the grandest of royal ways: in a landau carriage escorted by a troupe from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Musical Ride in their bright red tunics.
    Simon Perry, People.com, 27 May 2025
  • It's also understood that King Charles, 75, will attend Trooping the Colour amid his own cancer treatment, and conduct the review while seated in an Ascot landau carriage alongside Queen Camilla.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024
Noun
  • Hire a tonga and allow your tongawallah to guide you to Lucknow’s best spots.
    Condé Nast Traveller, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The Casas del Turuñuelo archaeological site, in the municipality of Guareña, has turned up a remarkable specimen, an extraordinary bronze votive chariot, the likes of which has never been uncovered in the Iberian Peninsula.
    Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 25 June 2026
  • Like watching a chariot crash with a rider named Oedipus.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 22 June 2026
Noun
  • Martha moved the antique wicker chaise below out to her driveway and sprayed it dusty rose to match the bedroom's walls.
    Dan Shaw, Martha Stewart, 8 June 2026
  • In a photo shared in her People cover story, which was shot by photographer Ruven Afanador, Shakira could be seen lounging on a brocade-upholstered chaise while modeling a nude cowl neck slip dress made out of nothing but mesh.
    Lara Walsh, InStyle, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • Passengers would debark at Country Club Station, near the intersection of what is now Cantrell Road and Kavanaugh Boulevard, and would either walk or ride in a buggy to the country club.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 27 June 2026
  • The first cars looked like horse buggies.
    Aswin Saravanan, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026

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“Rockaway.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rockaway. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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