roll around
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file)
Verb
[edit]roll around (third-person singular simple present rolls around, present participle rolling around, simple past and past participle rolled around)
- (intransitive) To move about on the ground while rotating and turning one's body.
- Pigs like to roll around in the mud.
- (intransitive) To be considered, without much coherence, in someone's mind.
- I'm going to write a book because I've got all these crazy ideas rolling around in my head.
- (intransitive, slang) To indulge in sexual intercourse (with).
- Synonyms: bump nasties, have sex, tumble; see also Thesaurus:copulate
- I know a girl who's fun to roll around with, but can't have a conversation.
- 2022 October 4, HarryBlank, “Drilling Down”, in SCP Foundation[1], archived from the original on 23 May 2024:
- Ibanez shook out her jumpsuit sleeves. "Delta, the guy, was no great shakes; he rolled around with Lil, tried to roll me, and I put one of his own bullets between his eyes. Sorry."
Lillihammer shrugged. "Got laid, don't care."
"That's the spirit." Ibanez picked out another pair of stills.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To laugh very heartily.
- Synonym: roll about
- (intransitive) Of a time or event: to come up; to happen.
- By the time Friday rolls around, I'm ready for the weekend.
- 2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club[2]:
- Sequels to fish-out-of-water comedies make progressively less sense the longer a series continues. By the time Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles rolled around in 2001, 15 years after the first Crocodile Dundee became a surprise blockbuster, the title character had been given an awfully long time to grow acclimated to those kooky Americans