A colony of breeding birds or other animals.
In winter rooks roost together in large numbers, and the roost may or may not be a rookery, but almost daily the local residents pay visits to the nesting trees, and about this time often begin playing at nest-building.
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(by extension) A crowded tenement.
There are six rookeries either side of Haddiscoe Island, which average 283 nests each.
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(British, historical, by extension) A place where criminals congregate, often an area of a town or city.
Spying flames vomiting from a Manhattan tenement one night last week, a scavenging junkman named Roderick Good turned in an alarm. In their beds in the five-story rookery lay more than 100 tenants.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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