rolling stone

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rolling stone^¹

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From the proverb a rolling stone gathers no moss.

noun rolling stones

idiomatic A person who moves around a lot and never settles down; a vagrant. Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job.
slang A womanizer. Papa was a rolling stone Wherever he laid his hat was his home And when he died, all he left us was a loan
A geological phenomenon where rocks move and inscribe long tracks along a smooth valley floor without animal or human intervention.
A meteoroid.

Rolling Stone^²

noun Rolling Stones

Any of the members of the Rolling Stones.

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noun person who moves around and never settles down

Español	vagabundo, trotamundos, vagabunda, perdedor, perdedora, bala perdida
Português	ludâmbulo
Français	clochard, bourlingueur, clocharde
Deutsch	Rumtreiber, Herumtreiber

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@misc{rolling_stone_2026,
  title = {rolling stone},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rolling%20stone},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}