Meaning of roll in | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To arrive casually at a place.
   intransitive
2. To come in an unstoppable flow.
   intransitive
3. To pot with minimal force.
   transitive
4. To come in (to a station, yard). (e.g. of a train)
   intransitive

Equivalents

Examples

“He rolled in five minutes late, without even saying sorry.”

“The money keeps on rolling in.”

“The clouds rolled in and it soon began to rain.”

“The tide rolls in.”

“He rolled the red in dead weight, and now he's nicely on the blue.”

“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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