rooker, noun

/ˈrʊəkə(r)/
Forms:
Also roker.
colloquial
Elliptical for dagga-rooker.
[1946 C.P. Wittstock in E. Partridge Dict. of Underworld (1950) 563A fine fellow: a reg rooker.]
1949 H.C. Bosman Cold Stone Jug (1969) 46I got a thrill out of the thought that I was smoking dagga, and not out of the act...But with the rookers it is different.
a1951 H.C. Bosman Willemsdorp (1977) 81The authorities might..think as how I’m also a roker. That’s what they calls among themselves a man that smokes it.
1967 Drum 27 Aug. 7He is not yet a confirmed ‘roker’, having smoked the stuff about ten or twelve times, at random, over a period of three years.
1974 Eng. Usage in Sn Afr. Vol.5 No.1, 10Here the common boop terms invariably have further significance for the rokers i.e. those who smoke boom (dagga — occasionally weed or tree).
1974 Eng. Usage in Sn Afr. Vol.5 No.1, 11 [see stop sense 1].
1975 Sunday Times 9 Nov. 15Then I saw the tattoo on her leg which she had shown me before she died. It read: ‘Rookers don’t sug,’ which means ‘dagga smokers don’t worry’.
1977 D. Muller Whitey 108‘Who are these people?’ ‘Outies, goffels, rookers. Old ones who have no place.’
1985 Fair Lady 6 Mar. 59I started smoking with my sister and some of her friends and then began to mix with the rokers (dope smokers).
1992 South 27 Feb. 7When 10-year-old Ashley goes to the park, he doesn’t spend time playing on the swings. Instead he huddles in a corner with the ‘rookers’.
Elliptical for dagga-rooker.
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