Rolling
//ˈɹəʊ.lɪŋ// adj, name, noun, verb, slang
adj, name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·Middle school level
Definitions
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."
- 2 propelling something on wheels wordnet
- 3 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.
- 4 the act of robbing a helpless person wordnet
- 5 a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) wordnet
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of roll form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
- 1 Drunk; intoxicated from alcohol, staggering. colloquial
- 2 Staggered in time and space.
"on a rolling basis"
- 3 Moving by turning over and over about an axis.
"The rolling mist came down and hid the land: / And never home came she."
- 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."
- 5 Making a continuous sound.
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- 6 Ellipsis of rolling in it (“very wealthy”). abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang
"Why one man who used to take me out, who was absolutely rolling, never tipped anyone."
- 7 having sloping edges that make the skin appear wavy and uneven.
Adjective
- 1 uttered with a trill wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples""A rolling stone gathers no moss" is a proverb."
Etymology
By surface analysis, roll + -ing.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.