rolling
See also: Rolling
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɹəʊ.lɪŋ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɹol.ɪŋ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊlɪŋ
- Homophone: Rowling
Adjective
rolling (comparative more rolling, superlative most rolling)
- (colloquial) Drunk; intoxicated from alcohol, staggering.
- Staggered in time and space.
- on a rolling basis
- a 90-day rolling business plan
- Moving by turning over and over about an axis.
- 1858, Charles Kingsley, “[Songs, Ballads, &c.] The Sands of Dee”, in Andromeda and Other Poems, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], →OCLC, stanza II, page 53:
- The rolling mist came down and hid the land: / And never home came she.
- Extending in gentle undulations (of the landscape).
- 1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 243:
- From Blackwater there is a more or less level run through gently rolling farmlands and downs to Merstone, with its island platform and passing loop.
- 2002, Russell Allen & Michael Romeo, "Part II - Journey to Ithaca" of "The Odyssey", "Incantations of the Apprentice", on Symphony X, The Odyssey.
- I miss the rolling hills of Ithaca
- Making a continuous sound.
- (slang) Short for rolling in it (“very wealthy”).
- 1938, Barbara Cartland, Broken Barriers:
- Why one man who used to take me out, who was absolutely rolling, never tipped anyone.
Synonyms
- (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk
- (staggered): spaced out, chequerwise
- (moving by turning over repeatedly): spinning, tumbling
- (undulating of the landscape):
Derived terms
- rolling average
- rolling backup
- rolling blackout
- rolling block
- rolling boil
- rolling chair
- rolling cipher
- rolling contact
- rolling demo
- Rolling Fork
- rolling hitch
- rolling introduction
- rolling mill
- rolling news
- rolling paper
- rolling pin
- rolling press
- rolling programme
- rolling resistance
- rolling scissors
- rolling skin disease
- rolling spider
- rolling start
- rolling stock
- rolling stone, Rolling Stone
- rolling stop
- rolling takeoff
- rolling the windows
Translations
moving by turning over repeatedly
undulating of the landscape
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Synonyms
Derived terms
- get the ball rolling, keep the ball rolling
- rolling in dough, rolling in money
Noun
rolling (plural rollings)
- The act by which something is rolled.
- 2007, Greg Patent, Dave McLean, A Baker's Odyssey:
- Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft.
- (video games, NES Tetris) A technique in which players rhythmically tap the underside of the controller with one hand while holding the thumb of the other on the d-pad so as to perform several button presses a second.
- Synonym: flyheccing
Derived terms
See also
- hypertapping
- jitterclicking
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