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roller
noun- a police officer US, 1964
- Boy, but the next day the roller may run down on ya, take you down to that lonesome old county jail. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 123, 1965
- At noon, two “rollers” broke the door down. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 101, 1969
- — Christina and Richard Milner, Black Players, p. 10, 1972
- This time, just a few doors from his joint, I dug the rollers round the edge of Winder from Brush Street. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 23, 1973
- Now I had a corner just like the rollers got a beat / Right on Eighth Avenue and a Hundred and Fifteenth Street. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 52, 1976
- a robber who relies on brute force US
- People were waiting to find out who the Greek was betting on, including some people who would make my Ohio River rollers look like choirboys. — Jimmy Snyder, Jimmy the Greek, p. 65, 1975
- a prostitute who takes a client’s money without delivering a service UK
From ROLL - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 98, 1996
- a Rolls-Royce car UK, 1975
- Later on he drove a Roller / Chauffering for foreign men[.] — Ian Dury, My Old Man, 1977
- — Peter Chippindale, The British CB Book, p. 161, 1981
- — Lewis Poteet, Car & Motorcycle Slang, p. 167, 1992
- I jumped out the Roller, ran round to his car, jumped in his passenger seat and slammed the door. — Dave Courtney, Raving Lunacy, p. 95, 2000
- But we found a bunch of keys on him that could have opened anything from a Roller to a Reliant Robin[.] — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 112, 2002
- in the car sales business, a car that can be driven home the same day it is bought US
- I got this floor-pop who’s looking for a roller but I can’t use the OA for the DP on his old sled–I’d take him to the mouse house but he has no sticks. — San Francisco Chronicle, pp. 2–1, 31 October 1966
- a car that is being driven US
- “How about rollers?” asked Serge. “How many hot cars do you get rolling?” “Hot rollers? Oh, maybe one a month” — Joseph Wambaugh, The New Centurions, p. 42, 1970
- a machine used to start the engine of a drag racer by spinning the rear wheels while the driver turns on the ignition US
- — Ed Radlauer, Drag Racing Pix Dix, p. 48, 1970
- a wave US
- — Michael V. Anderson, The Bad, Rad, Not to Forget Way Cool Beach and Surf Discriptionary, p. 16, 1988
- a vein that tends to roll away from a needle US, 1970
- — Walter Way, The Drug Scene, p. 113, 1977
- He was one of those wiry guys with veins forever; he could even fire at will into the rollers around his wrists and ankles. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 65, 1990
- a bowler US
- — Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark, The American Thesaurus of Slang, p. 633, 1953
- a tablet of MDMA, the recreational drug best known as ecstasy US
- Tablets of the rave-party drug ecstasy are called “rollers,” he added, explaining that ecstasy users often describe their high as “feeling like they’re rolling.” — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, p. 1B, 9 February 2002
- a hot dog US
- After they had eaten in the formal wardroom (they were fortunate; the meal was real meat in the form of “sliders and rollers,” cheeseburgers and hot dogs), they visited Tim’s tiny stateroom. — Gerry Carroll, North S*A*R, p. 133, 1991
- a drug dealer US
An abbreviation of HIGH-ROLLER- “See, at first when I was workin’ for a roller, I thought a hundred dollars was a lot of money.” — Leon Bing, Do or Die, p. 57, 1991
- a prostitute who robs customers US
- One kind of bar prostitute as the “roller.” She is less interested in fees than in “rolling” her client and taking his wallet after he is drunk. — Charles Winick, The Lively Commerce, p. 173, 1971
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