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Rover

nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

Someone connected with any number of teams called the Rovers, as a fan, player, coach etc.

noun

  1. 1

    Someone connected with any number of teams called the Rovers, as a fan, player, coach etc.

  2. 2

    Someone connected with any number of teams called the Rovers, as a fan, player, coach etc. someone connected with Blackburn Rovers FC, as a fan, player, coach etc.

  3. 3

    A member of the senior section of the Boy Scout movement catering for men of age 18 upwards, now disbanded.

Etymology

From rover.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A stereotypical given name for a dog.

    Thor jumped off the sledge to undo the gate, and as we merrily drove up to the door we were met by the boisterous welcome of old Rover, who in his frantic joy at hearing my voice almost broke his chain in trying to rush at me.

  2. 2

    A former make of a British motorcar.

Forms

plural
Rovers
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).