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pet rock en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A rock one keeps and cares for as if it were a pet, often purchased as a novelty item and jokingly treated as having needs like those of a living animal.
   • Though the fad ran its course long ago, the phrase “pet rock” endures in the American lexicon, denoting (depending on whether it is uttered with contempt or admiration) a useless entity or a meteoric success. [2015 March 31, Margalit Fox, “Gary Dahl, Inventor of the Pet Rock, Dies at 78”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • Papyrus: This is my brother's pet rock. He always forgets to feed it. As usual, I have to take responsibility. 2015 September 15, Toby Fox, Undertale, Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X:
   • I made a cute family of pet rocks by putting eye, nose, and mouth stickers on big stones.

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Translations (4)

fi lemmikkikivi (rock as a pet) · ko 애완돌 (rock as a pet) · ja ペットロック (rock as a pet) · ko 반려돌 (rock as a pet)