rolling

The act by which something is rolled.

Adjective

  1. 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.
    • The rolling mist came down and hid the land: / And never home came she. - 1858, Charles Kingsley, “[Songs, Ballads, &c.] The Sands of Dee”, in Andromeda and Other Poems, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […],...
  4. Extending in gentle undulations (of the landscape).
    • 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. - 1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central...
    • 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. Ellipsis of rolling in it (“very wealthy”).
    • Why one man who used to take me out, who was absolutely rolling, never tipped anyone. - 1938, Barbara Cartland, Broken Barriers:
  7. having sloping edges that make the skin appear wavy and uneven.

    Hypernyms: atrophic scar

  8. Under the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy and molly).

Origin

By surface analysis, roll + -ing.

Forms

more rolling most rolling

Synonyms

drunk spaced out chequerwise spinning tumbling

Derived

rolling average rolling backup rolling blackout rolling block rolling boil rolling brownout rolling chair rolling cipher rolling contact rolling demo Rolling Fork rolling hitch rolling introduction rollingly rolling maul rolling mill rolling news rolling paper rolling pin rolling press rolling programme rolling resistance rolling scissors rolling skin disease

Noun

  1. The act by which something is rolled.
    • Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft. - 2007, Greg Patent, Dave McLean, A Baker's Odyssey:
  2. 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.

    Synonyms: flyheccing

Forms

rollings

Related

hypertapping jitterclicking

Derived

alpha rolling cheese rolling coal-rolling cold rolling dermarolling egg rolling eye-rolling hot rolling logrolling pill rolling rag-rolling tongue rolling

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of roll

Synonyms

rowling

Derived

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