rolling

comparative more rolling · superlative most rolling

1. colloquialDrunk; intoxicated from alcohol, staggering.

   Synonyms: drunk

2. Staggered in time and space.

   on a rolling basis

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   a 90-day rolling business plan

   rolling blackouts or brownouts

   Synonyms: spaced out, chequerwise

3. Moving by turning over and over about an axis.

   The rolling mist came down and hid the land: / And never home came she.

   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

   Synonyms: spinning, tumbling

4. Extending in gentle undulations (of the landscape).

   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.

   1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 243

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   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

5. Making a continuous sound.
6. abbreviationellipsisslangEllipsis of rolling in it (“very wealthy”).

   Why one man who used to take me out, who was absolutely rolling, never tipped anyone.

   1938, Barbara Cartland, Broken Barriers

7. having sloping edges that make the skin appear wavy and uneven.
8. slangUnder the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy and molly).

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of roll

   Synonyms: rowling

plural rollings

1. The act by which something is rolled.

   Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft.

   2007, Greg Patent, Dave McLean, A Baker's Odyssey

2. video gamesA 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.

   Synonyms: flyheccing

plural Rollings

1. A surname.