roll

roll

1. slang To experience the euphoric rushes of certain recreational psychoactive drugs, especially MDMA (ecstasy). I could tell by his glazed eyes and effusive manner that he was rolling. I used to roll a lot during college, but I stopped doing drugs once I graduated.
2. slang To rob (a sleeping, unconscious, or otherwise defenseless person). I used to make ends meet in the city by rolling people who had passed out on the park benches after intense drinking sessions. Someone in the hostel rolled me during the night.
3. noun, slang A large wad of paper money. He placed a hefty roll on my desk and told me to take care of the informer by any means necessary.
4. noun, slang By extension, a large sum of money. If you invest the right way, you can make off with quite a roll.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

roll

verb
See roll a set

roll

1. n. a bankroll; lots of money. I earned a roll off that last deal.
2. tv. to rob a drunkard. Those punks can’t get much money by rolling drunks.
3. n. a sustained period of luck or productivity. (see also on a roll.) The fantastic roll that this performer is on is truly exciting.
4. in. to leave, perhaps in a car. I can’t wait around any longer. Let’s roll.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (all) rolled into one
  • (as) easy as rolling off a log
  • a roll in the hay
  • a roll Jack Rice couldn't jump over
  • a rolling stone
  • a rolling stone gathers no moss
  • ain't fittin' to roll with a pig
  • be (as) easy as rolling off (of) a log
  • be on a roll
  • be ready to roll
  • be rolling
  • be rolling in dough
  • be rolling in it
  • be rolling in money
  • be rolling in the aisles
  • be rolling in wealth
  • call (the) roll
  • call roll
  • easier than rolling off a log
  • easy as A, B, C
  • easy as pie
  • easy as rolling off a log
  • get (something) rolling
  • get a move on
  • get cracking/rolling
  • get rolling
  • get the ball rolling
  • get/keep/set/start the ball rolling
  • have (one) rolling in the aisles
  • have people rolling in the aisles
  • heads will roll
  • in clover
  • keep the ball rolling
  • keep the ball rolling, to
  • lay out the welcome mat (for one)
  • lay, put, roll, etc. out the welcome mat
  • Let her rip!
  • let her roll
  • let it roll
  • Let it roll!
  • let the good times roll
  • let's rock and roll
  • Let's rock and roll!
  • let's roll
  • like rolling off (of) a log
  • make heads roll
  • on a roll
  • pay with the roll of the drum
  • ready to roll
  • red carpet
  • rickroll
  • roll
  • roll (one's) (finger)prints
  • roll (one's) eyes
  • roll (one's) own
  • roll (one's) sleeves up
  • roll (over) in (one's) grave
  • roll a set
  • roll a set of (finger)prints
  • roll a set of prints
  • roll about
  • roll along
  • roll around
  • roll away
  • roll back
  • roll back the clock
  • roll back the years
  • roll by
  • roll down
  • roll in
  • roll in (something)
  • roll in it
  • roll in the aisles
  • roll in the hay
  • roll in wealth
  • roll of honor
  • roll of honour
  • roll off
  • roll off of (someone or something)
  • roll off the tongue
  • roll on
  • roll on (something)!
  • roll on...!
  • roll onto
  • roll onto (someone or something)
  • roll out
  • roll out the red carpet
  • roll out the red carpet (for someone)
  • roll out the welcome mat (for someone)
  • roll over
  • roll over and play dead
  • roll prices back
  • roll sleeves up
  • roll the bones
  • roll the dice
  • roll to
  • roll to (someone or something)
  • roll up
  • roll up (one's) sleeves
  • roll up in
  • roll up in (something)
  • roll up on (someone or something)
  • roll up one's sleeves
  • roll up your sleeves
  • roll with (someone or something)
  • roll with it
  • roll with the punches
  • roll with the punches, to
  • roll your own
  • roll/slip/trip off the tongue
  • rolled into one
  • rolling buzz
  • rolling drunk
  • rolling high
  • rolling in
  • rolling in (something)
  • rolling in clover
  • rolling in dough
  • rolling in it
  • rolling in it/money
  • rolling in money
  • rolling in the aisles
  • rolling on the floor laughing
  • rolling stone
  • rolling stone gathers no moss
  • rolling stone gathers no moss, a
  • set the ball rolling
  • sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll
  • slow (one's) roll
  • slow your roll
  • start the ball rolling
  • strike (one) from the roll (of solicitors/attorneys)
  • strike (one) off the roll (of solicitors/attorneys)
  • strike someone off the rolls
  • take (the) roll
  • the new rock and roll
  • turn in
  • turn in grave
References in classic literature
When Skipper carried him to the blanket and rolled him in, he was quickly asleep again; and he was quickly awake, out of the blanket, and padding after along the deck as Skipper paced up and down.
Skipper bent suddenly, rolled Jerry with quick toughness into the blanket, and deposited him in the hollow between two sacks of yams lashed on deck aft of the mizzenmast.
It was Lerumie, the black whom he had seen rolled on the beach by Biddy only the previous morning, who, still were recently, had kicked him on his stub of a tail, and who not more than a week before he had seen throw a rock at Terrence.
Jerry of the Islands
The crowd had rolled back, and were now huddled together nearly at the extremity of the street, while the soldiers had advanced no more than a third of its length.
From Twice Told Tales
Horses make another struggle to get up the bank, and again the coach rolls backward.
American Notes for General Circulation
One mast was broken short off, six or eight feet from the deck, and lay over the side, entangled in a maze of sail and rigging; and all that ruin, as the ship rolled and beat - which she did without a moment's pause, and with a violence quite inconceivable - beat the side as if it would stave it in.
There was a bell on board; and as the ship rolled and dashed, like a desperate creature driven mad, now showing us the whole sweep of her deck, as she turned on her beam-ends towards the shore, now nothing but her keel, as she sprung wildly over and turned towards the sea, the bell rang; and its sound, the knell of those unhappy men, was borne towards us on the wind.
He had a singular red cap on, - not like a sailor's cap, but of a finer colour; and as the few yielding planks between him and destruction rolled and bulged, and his anticipative death-knell rung, he was seen by all of us to wave it.
David Copperfield
By and by the black clouds rolled away and showed a blue sky overhead, with a silver moon shining sweetly in the middle of it and little stars winking merrily at Dorothy when she looked their way.
Ozma of Oz
Before the door, however, the mass of anxious spectators, rolled back against the walls, had become more thick, and closed up the way.
"I told you plainly to keep yourself quiet," said D'Artagnan to Menneville, who rolled at his feet.
Ten Years Later
The clouds scarce dim the water's sheen, The moon-bathed islands wanly show, And sweet words falter to and fro -- Though the great River rolls between.
Lute of Jade
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