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rog⋅er

  [roj-er]
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–interjection
1. Informal. all right; O.K.
2. message received and understood (a response to radio communications).
3. (often initial capital letter) Jolly Roger.
4. (formerly used in communications to represent the letter R.)
Origin:
from the name Roger; in def. 2 repr. r(eceived)
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Rog⋅er

  [roj-er]
–noun
a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “fame” and “spear.”
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rog·er   (rŏj'ər)   
interj.  Used especially in radio communications to indicate receipt of a message.
tr.v.   rog·ered, rog·er·ing, rog·ers Chiefly British Vulgar Slang
To have sexual intercourse with (a woman). Used of a man.

[From Roger, spoken representation of the letter r, short for received. V., from Roger, penis, from the name Roger.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
roger [ˈrɑdʒɚ]

  1. interj.
    okay; That is correct. : Roger, I'll do it.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

Roger 
masc. proper name, from O.Fr. Rogier, from O.H.G. Hrotger, lit. "famous with the spear," from hruod- "fame, glory" + ger "spear." As a generic name for "a person," attested from 1631. Slang meaning "penis" was popular c.1650-c.1870; hence the slang verb sense of "to copulate with (a woman)," attested from 1711. The use of the word in radio communication to mean "yes, I understand" is attested from 1941, from the U.S. military phonetic alphabet word for the letter -R-, in this case an abbreviation for "received." Said to have been used by the R.A.F. since 1938. The Jolly Roger pirate flag is first attested 1723, of unknown origin; jolly here has its otherwise obs. M.E. sense "high-hearted, gallant."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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