The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word ROCKY
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More clues leading to the result ROCKY
- Stony, and lacking 15 dn
- Difficult — as peak may be?
- These mountains tending to shake?
- Hard or easy to move
- Unsteady boxer
- Rough diamond, an unknown quantity
- Wobbly old picture
- Type of popular music, variable and uncertain
- Film of May finally being associated with a little cocaine?
- Rough film followed by several more
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What does ROCKY mean?
ROCKY adjective- Unstable; easily rocked.
- In the style of rock music.
- Troubled; or difficult; in danger or distress.
- Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks.
- Like a rock.
- Not easily impressed or affected; hard; unfeeling; obdurate