roll in

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roll in

verb rolls in · rolling in · rolled in

  1. intransitive, of a person To arrive casually at a place. He rolled in five minutes late, without even saying sorry.

    Opposite: head out, roll out

  2. intransitive To come in an unstoppable flow. The money keeps on rolling in.
  3. transitive To pot with minimal force. He rolled the red in dead weight, and now he's nicely on the blue.
  4. intransitive To come in (to a station, yard). (e.g. of a train) As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.

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@misc{roll_in_2026,
  title = {roll in},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/roll%20in},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}