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roll in en · VERB
Pronunciation
Meanings
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(intransitive, of a person) To arrive casually at a place.
He rolled in five minutes late, without even saying sorry.
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(intransitive) To come in an unstoppable flow.
The clouds rolled in and it soon began to rain.
The tide rolls in.
The money keeps on rolling in.
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(transitive) To pot with minimal force.
He rolled the red in dead weight, and now he's nicely on the blue.
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(intransitive) To come in (to a station, yard). (e.g. of a train)
As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
Forms
Antonyms
roll out · head out
Relateds
rolling in it