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roll v. Got rolled: Was outmaneuvered, outgunned and outsmarted on legislation. [English Politics] [full cite] (Jan. 10, 2005)

roll v. Roll. To obtain another’s job by unfair methods. [English] [full cite] (May. 12, 2005)

roll (someone) up v. phr. In the morning, I called a longtime friend, a Washington “source” I hadn’t spoken to in a while, and blew her cover wide open. In the parlance of the agency, I was “rolling her up.” [English] [full cite] (Aug. 18, 2005)

roll bounce v. phr. There’s a “skate off” taking place in Melbourne, and the end result appears to be two facilities for both children and adults to roll bounce, as they say in the skating parlance. [English Entertainment Slang] [full cite] (Aug. 9, 2009)

roll rate n. We’re in the late stages of the financial disaster of 2008, but another crisis looms: The consumer recession. According to the Wall Street Journal, more and more credit-card holders are falling behind on their payments and, eventually, defaulting. The industry calls these defaults “roll rates,” and the trend is increasing, for the most part, across all credit card companies. Among borrowers between 60 to 89 days late on payments, nearly a fifth of balances are being dimissed as uncollectible. [English Money & Finance Jargon] [full cite] (Dec. 14, 2008)

roll up n. An Owasso mother is filing a child abuse complaint against her son’s school after administrators told her that her 7-year-old autistic son was restrained at school for an unknown period of time. According to the police report, the school used what’s called a “roll up,” wrapping the child so he’s unable to move. [English] [full cite] (Mar. 22, 2007)

roll-on n. I also know that many white brothers who raise issues with Msholozi’s polygamous ways are not necessarily opposed to the notion of having two or three wives. In fact, many of them have their “roll-ons” (township argot for mistresses; you know, you put your roll-on under your armpit. Get it?). [English South Africa Relationships Slang] [full cite] (May. 19, 2009)

rollator n. In order to facilitate a day of traipsing around malls, Mom SC therefore decided to surprise MGSC with a device she mistakenly believed to be a wheelchair. In fact, it is something called a “rollator,” or a wheeled walker. [English] [full cite] (Sep. 30, 2004)

rollator n. His sister-in-law commented that older people in Sweden sustain their stamina by walking behind a so-called rollator. Unlike a conventional “clomp and stomp” walker, a rollator glides over pavement, carpet, thresholds and grass on large rubber wheels—much like a shopping cart with brakes, but without a big basket. [English Health] [full cite] (Oct. 1, 2004)

rollator n. We have assessed the effect of Zimmer, rollator and gutter frames on 6-min walking distance and on arterial oxygenation during exercise in elderly patients with COPD. [English Health] [full cite] (Oct. 1, 2004)

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