rocky

adjective9

1. •
   having many large hard pieces of stone, or made of stone

   • a rocky shore
2. •
   (figurative) Encountering many problems; difficult, troubled; also, in danger or distress.

   • Their relationship had weathered some rocky times, but they loved each other.
3. •
   Easily rocked; unstable.

   • The table was rocky, so we put a book under one leg.
4. •
   (figurative) Of a person: ill, or unsteady (for example, as a result of a shock).
5. •
   In the style of rock music.

   • His new album is quite rocky.
6. •
   Like a rock; rigid, solid.

   • Marsh went on as his prisoner drank. "Because you're caught in the middle of my alternate plan, Ram-Jam, which ram-jams your ass between the rockiest rock and the hardest hard place you ever imagined. — 1988
7. •
   Having a habitat around or on rocks.
8. •
   (slang) Having little or no money; stony broke.
9. •
   (figurative, no longer used) Not easily affected or impressed; stony; hard; obdurate; unfeeling.

noun1

1. •
   (Australia, informal) Diminutive of Rockhampton; the regional city of Rockhampton; a city in Queensland, Australia.

   • Rocky is the major city on the central Queensland coast and likes to call itself the beef capital of Australia. — 2005