steamroller

plural steamrollers · alternative steam roller

1. historicalA steam-powered heavy road roller.
2. broadlyinformalAny heavy road roller.
3. figurativelyAny seemingly irresistible force.

   Well, I'm a steamroller, babe / I'm bound to roll all over you

   1970, James Taylor, “Steamroller Blues”

   1 more example

   England's last line-out in World Cup rugby had been stolen by New Zealand in a dramatic conclusion to the final three years ago, but the driving maul remains a potent weapon and flanker Sadia Kabeya was decisive as England fired up the steamroller once more.

   2025 August 22, Mike Henson, “England open World Cup with 11-try win over USA”, in BBC Sport

4. slangA pipe, used for smoking cannabis, open at both ends and having a bowl near one end.

   It's more about him testing his wares. He rolls joints. He doesn't own a bong, hookah, smoking pipe, chillum, vaporizer, scale, dugout system, grinder, or steamroller.

   2005, Jane Smiley, John Kulka, Natalie Danford, editors, Best New American Voices 2006, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 242

present singular third person steamrollers · participle present steamrollering · participle past steamrollered · past steamrollered · alternative steam roller

1. transitiveTo level a road using a steamroller.

   Synonyms: steamroll

2. figurativelytransitiveTo proceed ruthlessly against all opposition as if with an overwhelming force.

   Synonyms: overpower, steamroll