AIBU to wonder exactly how one rocks up somewhere?

[RockingUp]

I keep seeing the term used on Mumsnet and I must know exactly what it involves. I'm picturing someone striding along with a '90s boombox on their shoulder but I suspect that isn't what they mean.

Ooh I also like to mooch. But this I would do by laying on the couch or being completely lazy and that is a moochy day. 😀

My dd and I do like to have a gander around the shops though. Also wander. If we are looking for something specific, then we go and scout about.

My 76-year-old mother always tells me that she 'rocked up' to the M&S café...

😂

Ah now. I don’t mooch around the house. That’s reserved for the shops, mainly.

But I do like a nice potter. I intend to just potter around this morning.

Ew - that's Vince Neil, he would smarm up, not rock up. THIS is how Diamond Dave would rock up

is this my life now, I realise now that you’re not talking about pottering.

You’re talking about lolling about, as my mother would say .

😀when in fact I am just being a lazy arse...

I do love the phrase lolling about though.

Unlikely to be about jagger when he’s on backing vocals!

I thought it was supposed to be about Warren Beatty.

Let's not forget people (always women) who 'prance'. It's always unclothed and in changing rooms and they are usually simultaneously 'flaunting their bits'.

I’m sure they are.

When I taught at a university, I often had undergrads rock up and swan in late.

At least MNers aren’t writing posts along the lines of ‘Then I went to X. Then X came. Then…. Then…’.

That seemed to infuriate my primary school teachers. They’d have been delighted for some news with descriptive language. And without ‘then’. 🤣

Ew - that's Vince Neil, he would smarm up, not rock up. THIS is how Diamond Dave would rock up

Whoops - got my hair metal titans muddled up!

That is indeed the perfect outfit for rockin' up to a place. I hope Dave wears it to Tesco for his Sunday morning shop

My Canadian friend putters when she has a day at home, which I love.

Swanning in means coming in with a bit of front - so you're either late, drunk, showing off or all three.

Traipse I use all the time, traipsing in mud, traipsing up to the hospital, traipsing through the rain with the dog. It's never cheery to traipse.

Where I'm from we also use boost and bounce to announce we're leaving: I need to bounce, I'm going to boost after this.

I had an MSC student once who used just this term, it must be almost 20 years ago but she really did just rock up. She got accepted, didn’t visit the campus or accommodation, didn’t really delve in to the syllabus. Just rocked up and did not care what anyone thought of her. She did really well on the course.

I would be more familiar with this term think it means similar. Sometimes prefixed with the term just.

Students also often saunter in, slink in, sneak in (or try to) or even bumble in to classes. Depends on a range of things.

Ooh, I’ve never heard of boosting and bouncing. The vernacular where I come from is “Right, I’d better make a move”.

I'm irish and we'd say someone sauntered in .

I used to work with someone who used 'to firtle', looks weird written down.

This was me rocking up at a time in my life when I felt full of confidence, happy in my own skin. I'm a lesbian for context.
It was late at night in a small Greek beach resort. I'd finished my shift in the bar I worked in and changed into my jeans and battered old leather jacket- it was chilly late at night. I'd heard that a woman I wanted to get to know better might be in another bar that had also technically closed for the night, so I walked there and saw that the lights were still on and I could hear voices. Inside, the bar was empty apart from the owner, and her girlfriend, and Vanya, the woman I was interested in. I strolled in, the owner poured me a Metaxa and I sat on a bar stool. Vanya was holding court, describing an episode in her colourful life. I sat listening to her, watching her and then joined in with the conversation, delighting in the growing chemistry between Vanya and I. Everything was possible. Great memories!

You forgot cooking on gas

I thought it was supposed to be about Warren Beatty.

Second verse was confirmed to be about Beatty - mainly as he seem to have recognised himself and thinks the whole song is about him and said so publicly.

The writer claims it was a composite about three men but hasn't named the other two. The media speculate it might be Jagger but as you say he was on the backing vocals though uncredited and her ex-husband has suggested other men may not be famous just men she knew.

Ooo I love a prance , yes it's always a woman flaunting (very sexist) . I love mumsnet for a good language thread .
I do love the words to describe someone who is feeling a bit in the money .
Rolling in it is a good one .