roll in

See also: rollin'

English

Verb

roll in (third-person singular simple present rolls in, present participle rolling in, simple past and past participle rolled in)

1. (intransitive, of a person) To arrive casually at a place.

   Antonyms: head out, roll out

   He rolled in five minutes late, without even saying sorry.

2. (intransitive) To come in an unstoppable flow.

   The money keeps on rolling in.

   The clouds rolled in and it soon began to rain.

   The tide rolls in.

3. (snooker, transitive) To pot with minimal force.

   He rolled the red in dead weight, and now he's nicely on the blue.

4. To come in (to a station, yard). (e.g. of a train)
   • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:

     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.

See also

• rolling in it

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