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roll coal en · VERB
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(US, slang) To emit sooty exhaust fumes from a modified (diesel) engine (fad among anti-environmentalist American truck drivers).
The light turned red, and Jerry peeled into the intersection, hooking left as an oversized pickup truck rolled coal and blared its horn at us. “Sorry!” I screamed for no good reason. Jerry skidded into another right turn.
(Can we date this quote?), Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Three, Jack Townsend, page 59:“Why don’t you go live in Sweden and get the heck out of our country,” Mr. Blue wrote.” I will continue to roll coal anytime I feel like and fog your stupid eco-cars.”
2016 September 4, Hiroko Tabuchi, “‘Rolling Coal’ in Diesel Trucks, to Rebel and Provoke”, in The New York Times:
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wet stacking · coal roller · coal-rolling · coal-rolled