roll

intransitive verb

Published on Nov. 1, 2018, 9:15 p.m.

to drive;

to go

Collocates 64¹⁰, G-ride⁹, Benz⁷, lac⁷, D's⁷, thick⁶, Lex⁵, hoe⁵, hood⁵, tool⁵, block⁴, 5-0⁴, one deep⁴, hard⁴, strapped⁴, Vogue⁴, dolo⁴, Benzo⁴, sit on³, bitch³, Cali³, deep³, double R³, G³, low-low³, Lorenzo³, po-po³, rims³, dolo², double R², drop-top², ends², ese², green leaf², jock², kicks², loot², 9², pack², projects², ride², slab², stack², stunt², swanga², Crenshaw², creep², correct², clique², Calico², Caddy², clip², strap², bling², blades², ayo², A.T.L.², 84's², 20², 24², loc, loc up, low-rider, MAC-10, mad, mayne, nickel, nickel, old school, on swoll, on the low, on the grind, one-time, paper, peep out, pen, Phantom, piff, pine, player-hate, posse, proper, raza, represent, residential, rhyme, ride, roll, Rover, ruckus, shife, shotty, simp, 6, six tray, skeeze, scrill, slide, slip, slug, soldier, step up, straight, blow, brah, time, trey, True, trump tight, U.P.T., vest, whip, wig, yo, Zenith, your ass is grass, Chi-town, fin', Illtown, on the daily, shout-out, stripes, switch, -ass, 24-7, third coast, 4, 4, 40, baller, bend corners, biatch, bird, BK, bust a cap, cake, chief, chopper, chrome, chromed-out, cold, cold, crazy, crazy, crew, Cutty, D, dap, Dayton, delf, -iz-, dro, drop, dub, dub, e, elbow, fetti, flavor, fly, four fifth, freak, front, game, gangsta, ghetto, glock, good, green leaf, half-stepper, hella, hit switches, homie, hooptie, hops, I'mma, in the wind, indo, keep it 100, kick, Lex-o, like a boss

Domains Driving

Synonyms crawl, creep, ride, slide, slip, swang, swerve, whip

Related concepts bounce, bust out, ghost, stab out, Swayze

Rhymes stroll³, po-po², 84's, bling bling, cold, hole, on swoll

Timeline

1985-01-21 Run-D.M.C. "Slow & Low (Demo)" [King of Rock]
We won't stroll but we'll roll straight to the top
1986 Kool Moe Dee "Rock Steady" [Kool Moe Dee]
I roll hard
1987-03-01 Too $hort "Mack Attack" [Born To Mack]
Like a Zenith wire wheel I roll

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roll

transitive verb

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to enclose tobacco, marijuana, etc. in a rolling-paper or cigar wrapper

Collocates Dutch¹³, blunt¹¹, j¹¹, Optimo⁸, joint⁷, Phillie⁵, spliff⁵, Vega⁵, weed⁵, doja⁴, indo⁴, kush⁴, tree⁴, Backwoods³, hoe³, l³, la³, Swisher³, bitch², cheese², chill², D's², fatty², hydro², I'mma², in the cut², oowop², pine², player², proper², stunt², White Owl², wooler², dro, -ass, 420, all that, bank, blow, boo, brain, bud, buddha, bust, chronic, clock, crack, crunk, D, dog, dub, fed, figures, fire, fly, fresh, Garcia Vega, go hard, gram, green, green leaf, grind, hella, hella, Henny, herb, hit, lean, mad, nick, on point, onion, ounce, pape, piff, po-po, presidential, purple, QB, raw, rhyme, rhyme, ride, ride, roll, sack, sess, sizzurp, skama, skunk, stack, sticky, stunt, swag, syrup, the Bridge, dunn, tote, touch, tryna, word up, xan, zig-zag, zip, zooted

Domains Drugs, Marijuana

Synonyms roll up

Rhymes need

Timeline

1985-11-18 LL Cool J "Rock The Bells" [Radio]
Now you know, what do you know, Earl rolls the weed
1986-11-15 Beastie Boys "Slow Ride" [Licensed To Ill]
Went to the bathroom, rolled myself a wooler
1988-01-31 Too $hort "City of Dope" [Life Is... Too $hort]
To roll a fat joint and smoke that weed

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roll

transitive verb

Published on Nov. 1, 2018, 9:15 p.m.

to drive

(object often extends to automobile features, i.e. to drive a car with said "tires", "wheels", "paint", etc.)

Collocates Caddy⁷, D's⁵, 64⁴, Vogue³, -ass², 20², 84's², Cadillac², double R², lac², Lex², swanga², Rari, 83's, blades, BM, buster, candy, Clover, Cutty, D-town, Dayton, dip, dough, drop, drop-top, dump on, Eagle, elbow, Fleetwood, 4, fresh, G, gangsta, H, hoe, homie, hundred spoke, ki, leather, lick, low-low, nickel, phat, ride, slang, soldier, spit, stick, swang, tote, trey, triple gold, True, V-twizzy, wood, Zenith, Zoe Pound

Domains Driving

Synonyms ride, whip

Related concepts bounce, bust out, crawl, creep, ghost, ride, roll, slide, slip, stab out, swang, Swayze, swerve

Timeline

1983 Too $hort "Short Rap" [Don't Stop Rappin']
I'm a fresh young bachelor, I roll Caddy
1987-11-06 N.W.A. "Dopeman" [N.W.A. & The Posse]
Rollin 64 wit the fresh -ass Daytons
1988-09-01 Sir Mix-A-Lot "Attack On The Stars" [Swass]
Roll a gold Caddy, wearin white Troop leather

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roll

intransitive verb

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to take the drug ecstasy (MDMA)

Collocates X⁴, ecstasy³, e², fin', hoe

Domains Drugs

Synonyms thizz

Related concepts bean, candy, e, ecstasy, molly, thizz, thizzle, X

Timeline

2000-02-29 Bone Thugs-n-Harmony "Ecstasy" [BTNHResurrection]
We rollin' on that ecstasy
2000-06-13 Three 6 Mafia "Sippin' On Some Syrup" feat. UGK [When the Smoke Clears: Sixty 6, Sixty 1]
Rolling on them X pills
2001-08-07 Jadakiss "I'm A Gangsta" feat. Parle [Kiss Tha Game Goodbye]
Have all these hoes roll on e

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roll

transitive verb

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to attack

Collocates buster, cracker, hoe, joint, player-hate, punk, rapper, smoke, static, sucker, Vogue

Domains Violence

Synonyms break off, buck, ride on, rock, roll on, twist, wild on

Rhymes sold, told

Timeline

1988-09-16 Eazy-E "Eazy Duz It" [Eazy-Duz-It]
Rolled them muthafuckas, ate 'em up, hit 11
1989-06-19 The D.O.C. "Let The Bass Go" [No One Can Do It Better]
Suckers with static approach and get rolled and smoked like a joint
1989-10-17 Sir Mix-A-Lot "The (Peek-A-Boo) Game" [Seminar]
Rolled you, sold you, then the punk told you

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