Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • interjection Used especially in radio communications to indicate receipt of a message.
  • transitive verb To have sexual intercourse with (a woman). Used of a man.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A ram. See Collins Miscellanies (1742), p. 116.
  • noun A rogue. [Old cant.]

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A black flag with white skull and crossbones, formerly used by pirates; -- called also Jolly Roger and pirate flag.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • interjection radio telecommunications Received (used in radio communications to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood)
  • verb transitive, vulgar slang Of a man, to have sexual intercourse with (someone), especially in a rough manner.
  • verb intransitive, vulgar slang To have sexual intercourse.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Roger, spoken representation of the letter r, short for received. V., from Roger, penis, from the name Roger.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From 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.

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Shelta roger.

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Examples

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    Goston's Blog goston 2009

  • The only two we lost and never found were shot by my cousin roger with his 300 mag, he cant come anymore!!!!

    Close Calls: Two Hunters Dodge a Charging Moose 2009

  • The only two we lost and never found were shot by my cousin roger with his 300 mag, he cant come anymore!!!!

    Close Calls: Two Hunters Dodge a Charging Moose 2009

  • June 18th, 2007 at 9: 32 pm nathan, roger is doing a good job on you, but just to return to my earlier notion: there is nothing intelligent about thinking of what we’re doing in iraq in the context of counterinsurgency. rather, it’s a case of a man with a hammer seeing a problem as a nail.

    Matthew Yglesias » Edwards Versus Petraeus 2007

  • I fooled you’all so many times,,, now my bro roger is conning the country.

    Think Progress » BREAKING: CBS To Report Fitzgerald Will Make His Decision Known Tomorrow 2005

  • To "roger" and others – It is true that Obama and his campaign have also been negative at times.

    Richardson: Clinton supporters 'clinging to the throne' 2008

  • That's the screenname of the left-leaning reader named "roger" who - in language that was less than progressive - took exception to a recent column I wrote criticizing both Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for his condescending racial comments about Barack Obama's dialect and skin tone during the 2008 presidential election and a slew of his fellow Democrats for bending their morals into pretzels to defend him and declare the subject closed.

    Pajamas Media 2010

  • If you 'roger' voted for labour then you are in some way to blame for the mess we are in.

    MoneyWeek RSS - All 2010

  • Another senior official in NDLEAs headquarters said: "we have to look for other sources of money than collecting" roger "(bribe) from drug suspects to maintain our offices, buy paper and fuel the vehicles.

    unknown title 2009

  • I'm thankful to be an American, and I enjoy seeing the president being able to spend time with his family and being able to mingle with other Americans ... the entourage and security are required ..... give it a rest, will ya? roger in ga

    Obama and daughters visit frozen custard shop 2009

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  • "Roger, dodger you old codger, I'm a major too!"

    -My Dad (I know he borrowed it from someone else, but I don't remember the story...something about war)

    June 14, 2008

  • I found it! :-)

    June 14, 2008

  • Yes! That's it Pro. Thanks! A fine example of "One-up-manship."

    June 14, 2008

  • (noun/verb) - (1) The penis, from circa 1650; perhaps originally cant. To coit with a woman.

    --Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, 1956

    (2) To bull, or lie with a woman; from the name of Roger being frequently given to a bull.

    --Francis Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1796

    (3) To have sexual intercourse with.

    --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1914

    January 16, 2018