rolling

See also: Rolling

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, roll +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊ.lɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹol.ɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -əʊlɪŋ
• Homophone: Rowling

Adjective

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.

Synonyms

• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk
• (staggered): spaced out, chequerwise
• (moving by turning over repeatedly): spinning, tumbling
• (undulating of the landscape):

Derived terms

• rolling average
• rolling backup
• rolling blackout
• rolling block
• rolling boil
• rolling chair
• rolling cipher
• rolling contact
• rolling demo
• Rolling Fork
• rolling hitch
• rolling introduction
• rolling mill
• rolling news
• rolling paper
• rolling pin
• rolling press
• rolling programme
• rolling resistance
• rolling scissors
• rolling skin disease
• rolling spider
• rolling start
• rolling stock
• rolling stone, Rolling Stone
• rolling stop
• rolling takeoff
• rolling the windows

 

Translations

moving by turning over repeatedly

• Bulgarian: търкалящ се (tǎrkaljašt se)
• Italian: rotolamento (it)
• Maori: takahurihuri
• Spanish: rolar (es)
• Swedish: rulla (sv)

undulating of the landscape

• Bulgarian: хълмист (hǎlmist)
• Finnish: kumpuileva
• Maori: tāwakawaka, pūwakawaka, pukepuke

Verb

rolling

1. present participle and gerund of roll

Synonyms

• rowling

Derived terms

• get the ball rolling, keep the ball rolling
• rolling in dough, rolling in money

Noun

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

Derived terms

• cheese rolling
• coal-rolling
• cold rolling
• egg rolling
• eye-rolling
• hot rolling
• pill rolling
• rag-rolling
• tongue rolling

 

See also

• hypertapping
• jitterclicking