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slow roll

verb slow rolls · slow rolling · slow rolled · slow-roll · slowroll

  1. slang To make a long pause before calling an all-in bet with a strong, usually very strong, hand.
  2. slang To make a long pause before revealing one's winning hand.
  3. broadly, transitive To obstruct by delaying; to slow-walk. The president is upset with congressional leaders for slow-rolling his core campaign promise, and for failing to defund sanctuary cities in their spending bill.

noun slow rolls · slow-roll · slowroll

  1. slang An instance of slow rolling. Saw a very strange slow roll last night in a $20/$40 game. A guy raises with KK and another player calls, all-in, with 99. Flop and turn are rainbow rags. Then, for reasons known only to him and God, the dealer decides to get cute with the river card. He peeks at the corner, pauses dramatically, loo
  2. A maneuver in which the aircraft makes a complete rotation around its roll axis while maintaining a straight and level flight path.

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@misc{slow_roll_2026,
  title = {slow roll},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/slow%20roll},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}