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Meaning of roll around | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To move about on the ground while rotating and turning one's body.
  2. To be considered, without much coherence, in someone's mind.
  3. To indulge in sexual intercourse (with).
  4. To laugh very heartily.
  5. Of a time or event: to come up; to happen.

Equivalents

العربية تمرمغ لاث
Suomi kieritellä
Svenska tumla om
ไทย เกลือก

Examples

“Pigs like to roll around in the mud.”
“I'm going to write a book because I've got all these crazy ideas rolling around in my head.”
“I know a girl who's fun to roll around with, but can't have a conversation.”
“By the time Friday rolls around, I'm ready for the weekend.”
“Sequels to fish-out-of-water comedies make progressively less sense the longer a series continues. By the time Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles rolled around in 2001, 15 years after the first Crocodile Dundee became a surprise blockbuster, the title character had been given an awfully long time to grow acclimated to those kooky Americans”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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