Rockaway

See also: rockaway

English

Etymology

See rockaway.

Proper noun

Rockaway

  1. A sandy peninsula in Queens County, New York, extending west from Nassau County, dividing Jamaica Bay from the Atlantic Ocean.
  2. A borough of Morris County, New Jersey.
  3. A river in New Jersey, a tributary of the Passaic.

Noun

Rockaway (plural Rockaways)

  1. (historical) A Native American inhabiting this region.

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