DCHP-1 Online

roll

• 1 v. place tobacco into a small rectangle of paper and make a cigarette by rolling the paper round the tobacco with a deft motion of the fingers and thumbs.

  See also: rollings  twist  twisting  

  • 1892  (1896)  He slowly rolled a cigarette and replied: "He says it's a scandal that I live at Fort Anne."
  • 1960  "Looks sixty. Thin face. Dark. Looks a little Indian but not our kind of Indian. Rolls his own. . . ."

• 2 v. Lumbering, Slang roll one's blanket (or bundle), quit the job.

  • 1953  Rolled my bundle, hiking down the trail,
    When--Through the night cam a donkey's wail
    'Twas the crew, out yarding, crazy as a loon
    and they logged another million by the silvery moon.
  • 1956  [If] he didn't like the donkey puncher . . . he would roll his blanket and head for town.