rolling

adjective

1. 1

   Drunk; intoxicated from alcohol, staggering.

2. 2

   Staggered in time and space.

   on a rolling basis

   a 90-day rolling business plan

   rolling blackouts or brownouts

3. 3

   Moving by turning over and over about an axis.

   The rolling mist came down and hid the land: / And never home came she.

4. 4

   Extending in gentle undulations (of the landscape).

   From Blackwater there is a more or less level run through gently rolling farmlands and downs to Merstone, with its island platform and passing loop.

   2002, Russell Allen & Michael Romeo, "Part II - Journey to Ithaca" of "The Odyssey", "Incantations of the Apprentice", on Symphony X, The Odyssey. I miss the rolling hills of Ithaca

5. 5

   Making a continuous sound.

6. 6

   having sloping edges that make the skin appear wavy and uneven.

7. 7

   slangUnder the influence of MDMA (a psychedelic stimulant, also known as ecstasy and molly).

8. 8

   Variant of rolling in itslangEllipsis of rolling in it (“very wealthy”).

   Why one man who used to take me out, who was absolutely rolling, never tipped anyone.

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of rollpresent participle and gerund of roll

noun

1. 1

   The act by which something is rolled.

   Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft.

2. 2

   A technique in which players rhythmically tap the underside of the controller with one hand while holding the thumb of the other on the d-pad so as to perform several button presses a second.

Forms

plural

rollings

comparative

more rolling

superlative

most rolling