Meaning of rolling stone | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who moves around a lot and never settles down; a vagrant.
   idiomatic
2. Any of the members of the Rolling Stones.
3. A womanizer.
   slang
4. A geological phenomenon where rocks move and inscribe long tracks along a smooth valley floor without animal or human intervention.
5. A meteoroid.

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Examples

“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.”

“How does it feel⟳ To be on your own⟳ With no direction home Like⟳ a complete⟳ unknown Like⟳ a rolling stone?”

“Papa was a rolling stone Wherever he laid his hat was his home And when he died, all he left us was a loan”

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