roll-your-own

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roll-your-own

noun roll-your-owns

  1. A type of cigarette made by the smoker by rolling loose tobacco in a rectangle of paper. […]and when you raise the 10-cent cigarette, on which you get the same tax as you do on the higher-priced cigarette, the increase in roll-your-owns will go right ahead and cause a diminution in consumption due to that higher cost.

    Similar: RYO, rollie · Opposite: tailor-made

adjective

  1. not comparable Built for oneself as opposed to purchased ready-made. […] a director of KARL, likes the roll-your-own approach and is finishing up a 1500-watt […]
  2. not comparable Being or relating to a stud poker variant in which the player chooses which cards to turn up visible to the other players.

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@misc{roll_your_own_2026,
  title = {roll-your-own},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/roll-your-own},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}