roll deep

verb

To travel in a group.

“In that hood you gotta roll no less than thirty deep, aight dawg?”

Meanings

verbroll deep (third-person singular simple present rolls deep, present participle rolling deep, simple past and past participle rolled deep)

present singular third person rolls deep · participle present rolling deep · participle past rolled deep · past rolled deep

  1. slangTo travel in a group.

    In that hood you gotta roll no less than thirty deep, aight dawg?

    3 more examples

    When I roll, I gots to roll deep

    1992 November 17, Ice Cube, “When Will They Shoot?” (track 2), in The Predator

    "When you go to the club, Atlanta, roll deep," he said, advising his listeners to travel in packs. "That way, people won't be ready to start some drama with you if you've got some homies around.[…]"

    2006 June 17, Brenda Goodman, “A Hard Core, Hip-Hop Spiritual Journey”, in The New York Times

    It was 1987, and she’d come to the international film festival for the first time as part of the ensemble cast of “Aria,” an anthology of 10 short films set to operatic music. The piece she was in had been directed by Derek Jarman, and the others were directed by the likes of Jean-Luc Godard, Bruce Beresford and Robert Altman. In other words: They were rolling deep. Or as the actress likes to say: carousing.

    2019 May 17, Amy Kaufman, “Tilda Swinton is back at Cannes and optimistic about the future”, in Los Angeles Times
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Chicago

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