Roll-up Definition

rōlup
rollup, roll-ups
noun
A food shaped into a cylinder, typically consisting of a flat ingredient rolled around a filling, as of a meat or vegetable.
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(UK, informal) A self-made cigarette from tobacco and rolling paper. (Sometimes spelt as roll-up.)

I smoke roll ups rather than cigs, because they are cheaper.
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interjection
An exclamation used to get people's attention to sell something.
Roll up, roll up, pies for sale.
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verb

Make into a cylinder by rolling.

The shopkeeper had to roll up the poster to make it easier to carry.
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Make into a bundle.

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(intransitive) Arrive by vehicle, usually by car.
We thought Jim would be late for the wedding, but then we saw him roll up in front of the the church in his Mercedes.
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Other Word Forms of Roll-up

Noun

Singular:
roll-up
Plural:
roll-ups

Roll-up Sentence Examples

  • I was reaching for his hanging suit when I heard an automobile roll up the driveway.

  • The timing was propitious, as black clouds had begun to roll up the valley and gather above them, the advance guard of a summer shower.

  • A woman sometimes found that when her boyfriend wasn't too much bigger than her, she could toss on his jeans with a belt, roll up the legs and have a great pair of broken-in jeans.

  • The allies, aware of the gradual strengthening of their enemy's forces but themselves as yet unable to put more than 200,000 in the field, had left a small corps of observation opposite Magdeburg and along the Elbe to give timely notice of an advance towards Berlin; and with the bulk of their forces had taken up a position about Dresden, whence they had determined to march down the course of the Elbe and roll up the French from right to left.

  • Wingless females of many tropical species present a close superficial resemblance to woodlice; and one interesting apterous form known as Pseudoglomeris, from the East Indies, is able to roll up like a millipede.

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Words Starting With

RROROL

Words Ending With

PUP

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Words Starting With R and Ending With P

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