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The song was written by Alice in Chains guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell for his father, Jerry Cantrell Sr., who served with the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. "Rooster" was a childhood nickname given to Cantrell Sr. by his great-grandfather, because of his perceived "cocky" attitude and his hair, which used to stick up on top of his head like a rooster's comb.
Cock, cockerel or rooster, a male of any bird species, especially chicken; Cock (slang), a vulgar slang term for a penis; Cock or cocks may also refer to: Names.
Chicken can be used, usually by gay men referring to other gay men, to mean a young gay man or young-appearing gay man.. Author Bruce Rodgers defines the term as "1. any boy under the age of consent, heterosexual, fair of face, and unfamiliar with homosexuality ("So many chickens were flapping around that I thought we were touring Colonel Sanders' plantation”) 2. juvenile, youthful, young ...
Goat testicles at a market in Spain Beef testicles at a market in Italy Rooster testicle stew (kakashere pörkölt) in Hungary Bulls testicle stew (right) in Austria. The testicles of calves, lambs, roosters, turkeys, and other animals are eaten in many parts of the world, often under euphemistic culinary names.
I have never heard of "rooster" meaning only "young male chicken". This statement: Only Americans, Canadians, and English-speakers who are totally unfamiliar with chickens would make this mistake. Internationally, a male chicken is a "cock", and "rooster" as an adult cock is locale-specific is quite simply absurd. Google for "year of the ...
Detroit slang is an ever-evolving dictionary of words and phrases with roots in regional Michigan, the Motown music scene, African-American communities and drug culture, among others. The local ...
I think that, as "cock" is the international English term for male chicken, that rooster should be moved here and renamed cock, with a single disambiguation for the second term. Otherwise, the article violates NPOV by conforming to American English instead of any of the other dialects who all reserve "rooster" to refer to a young cock.
The supporters of the club are called cockerels. Another football club that uses a rooster as its symbol and mascot is the Clube Atlético Mineiro, from Brazil. Brazilian football fans often refer to Mineiro as "Galo", which means rooster in Portuguese.