or rokker, verb. (tramps’: originally Gypsy).—1.  To understand; (2) to speak.

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  1876.  C. HINDLEY, ed. The Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack, 231.

        Can you ROCKER Romanie,
  Can you patter flash?

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  1893.  Standard, 29 Jan., 2. We have to be out in the road early, you know, to secure our “Toby” (great laughter). That’s plain. We don’t ROCK Romany all day long (laughter).

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  1894.  A. MORRISON, Martin Hewitt, Investigator [Strand Magazine, July, 60]. Hewitt could ROKKER better than most Romany chals themselves.

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