roll one's own
(Redirected from roll your own)
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From cigarettes, which are available commercially rolled (i.e., with the paper around the substance being smoked) but which some prefer to roll.
Verb[edit]
roll one's own (third-person singular simple present rolls one's own, present participle rolling one's own, simple past and past participle rolled one's own)
- (computing, informal) To create something of which an analogue is commercially available.
- My custom wordprocessor? Yeah, I could have just installed Word or OpenOffice, but I always prefer to roll my own.