rolling

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊ.lɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹol.ɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -əʊlɪŋ
• Homophone: Rowling

rolling (comparative more rolling, superlative most rolling)

1. (colloquial) Drunk; intoxicated from alcohol, staggering.
2. Staggered in time and space.

   on a rolling basis

   a 90-day rolling business plan

   rolling blackouts or brownouts

3. Moving by turning over and over about an axis.
   • 1858, Charles Kingsley, “[Songs, Ballads, &c.] The Sands of Dee”, in Andromeda and Other Poems, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], →OCLC, stanza II, page 53:

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

4. Extending in gentle undulations (of the landscape).
   • 1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 243:

     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. Making a continuous sound.
6. (slang) Short for rolling in it (“very wealthy”).
   • 1938, Barbara Cartland, Broken Barriers:

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

• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk
• (staggered): spaced out, chequerwise
• (moving by turning over repeatedly): spinning, tumbling
• (undulating of the landscape):

rolling

1. present participle and gerund of roll

• rowling

• get the ball rolling, keep the ball rolling
• rolling in dough, rolling in money

rolling (plural rollings)

1. The act by which something is rolled.
   • 2007, Greg Patent, Dave McLean, A Baker's Odyssey:

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