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Definition of Roll up

1. Verb. Form into a cylinder by rolling. "Roll up the cloth"

2. Verb. Get or gather together. "They roll up the money in the closet"; "She rolled up a small fortune"

3. Verb. Arrive in a vehicle:. "He rolled up in a black Mercedes"

4. Verb. Make into a bundle. "He bundled up his few possessions"

5. Verb. Close (a car window) by causing it to move up, as with a handle. "She rolled up the window when it started to rain"

6. Verb. Form a cylinder by rolling. "Roll up a banner"

7. Verb. Show certain properties when being rolled. "Dried-out tobacco rolls badly"

Definition of Roll up

1. Interjection. An exclamation used to get people's attention to sell something. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) Make into a cylinder by rolling ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) Make into a bundle ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive) Arrive by vehicle, usually by car ¹

6. Noun. (British informal) A self-made cigarette from tobacco and rolling paper. ''(Sometimes spelt as roll-up.)'' ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Roll Up

roll in the aisles roll in the hay roll in wealth roll mill roll of tobacco roll off roll on roll one's eyes roll one's own roll out

roll out the red carpet roll over roll rate roll sulfur roll tube roll up (current term) roll up one's sleeves roll ups roll with the punches rollable

rollaboard rollaboards rollatini rollator rollaway rollaways rollback rollbacked rollbacking rollbacks

Literary usage of Roll up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"Oh, take off yer coat and roll up yer sleeve, Jordan am a hard road to ... Take off yer coat and roll up yer sleeve, Jordan am a hard road to ..."

2. Can Grande's Castle by Amy Lowell (1918)
"They roll up out of the horizon, tiered, stately. Sixty-four great thunder-clouds, more perhaps, throwing their shadows over ten miles of sea. ..."

3. A Cyclopædic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language Spoken in British Central by David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1892)
"... то BUNDLE ГР ; ta- to roll up the straying ends ; gather r*fbm'ti<mba, roll up the cloth, there it is yanga, he stole my fowl — ie, ..."

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