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roll-around
[ rohl-uh-round ]
adjective
- equipped with wheels or casters so as to be easily movable from one location to another:
a roll-around kitchen counter.
Word History and Origins
Origin of roll-around1
Idioms and Phrases
Return or recur, as in When income tax time rolls around, Peggy is too busy to play tennis . [Late 1600s]Example Sentences
Also Kate and I are best buds and got to roll around and eat donuts.
Every year when the Oscars roll around, a front-runner starts to emerge from the pack, and a nasty story follows.
You see he isn't big enough to walk, or crawl, or even roll around much and crying is the way he gets his exercise.
The clock showed four-forty-four and Clint saw the car roll around the corner into the square.
She would play in the sand and roll around in the woods among the leaves and bushes until her curls were all tangled up.
Bake in a moderate oven and roll around a round stick, after cutting them in four inch squares.
In 1796 and 1803 the following note was attached:—'How long will ye roll around me, blue-tumbling waters of Ocean.
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