rolling

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Etymology

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By surface analysis, roll +‎ -ing.

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rolling (comparative more rolling, superlative most rolling)

  1. (colloquial) Drunk; intoxicated from alcohol, staggering.
  2. Staggered in time and space.
    on a rolling basis
    a 90-day rolling business plan
    rolling blackouts or brownouts
  3. 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.
  4. 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
  5. Making a continuous sound.
  6. (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.

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Verb

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rolling

  1. present participle and gerund of roll

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Noun

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rolling (plural rollings)

  1. 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.
  2. (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

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