ROCKY

Rocky

Rocky is a 1976 American sports film directed by John G. Avildsen and both written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. It tells the rags to riches American Dream story of Rocky Balboa, an uneducated but kind-hearted debt collector for a loan shark in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Rocky starts out as a club fighter who later gets a shot at the world heavyweight championship. It also stars Talia Shire as Adrian, Burt Young as Adrian's brother Paulie, Burgess Meredith as Rocky's trainer Mickey Goldmill, and Carl Weathers as the champion, Apollo Creed.

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rocky

Adjective

  1. Unstable; easily rocked.
    The table was rocky, so we put a book under one leg.
  2. In the style of rock and roll music.
    His new album is quite rocky.
  3. Troubled; or difficult; in danger or distress.
    Their relationship had weathered some rocky times, but they loved each other.

Adjective (etymology 2)

  1. Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks.
    a rocky mountain
    a rocky shore
  2. Like a rock.
    ''the rocky orb of a shield
  3. Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate; as, a rocky bosom.


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