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roll-around

[ rohl-uh-round ]

adjective

  1. equipped with wheels or casters so as to be easily movable from one location to another:

    a roll-around kitchen counter.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of roll-around1

First recorded in 1970–75; adj. use of verb phrase roll around
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Idioms and Phrases

Return or recur, as in When income tax time rolls around, Peggy is too busy to play tennis . [Late 1600s]
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Example Sentences

We'd throw our cash into the roll-around and the clerk would pass us bottles we'd drown until we ached and sometimes blacked out.

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Usually, in her growing-up tantrums, this daughter would storm out of the house and come back hours later, placated, the sweetness in her nature reasserted, bearing silly gifts for everyone in the family, refrigerator magnets, little stuffed hairballs with roll-around eyeballs.

And despite the light drizzle on Sunday, some children remained outside to sit and spin in roll-around chairs by British designer Thomas Heatherwick.

And despite the light drizzle on Sunday, some children remained outside to sit and spin in roll-around chairs by British designer Thomas Heatherwick.

Money, snacks and change were all exchanged through a roll-around as thick as the glass that separated our worlds.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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