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logroll

logroll verb: to exchange favours, especially political favours.

Verb

logroll (third-person singular simple present logrolls, present participle logrolling, simple past and past participle logrolled)

  1. (figuratively, intransitive) To exchange favours, especially political favours.
  2. (US, figuratively, transitive) To combine legislative items, either or both of which might fail on its own, into a single bill that is more likely to pass.
    • Republicans defeated Democratic efforts to logroll hate crimes legislation into the defense appropriations bill.
  3. To roll a log in a body of water, while balancing on it; to birl.
    • The competitors come from as far away as New Zealand and Spain to the Lumberjack Bowl in Hayward--formerly a holding pond for Weyerhauser's North Wisconsin Logging Company--to pole climb, speed saw, logroll, and chop with all their might.2002 May 31, Jeffrey Felshman, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader
  4. To move like rolling logs.
    • Her dancers may logroll over each other or curl up together, but they never get personal.1999 January 22, Laura Molzahn, “Chicago's Next Dance Festival”, in Chicago Reader
  5. (transitive) To safely move (a body) in an emergency (medical) situation, tilting them up, then laying them on a transport surface.

Noun

logroll (plural logrolls)

  1. A method of moving a patient, rolling them onto their side, and later onto a transport method such as a tarp, spineboard, or stretcher.

Forms of logroll

Verb
third-person singular presentlogrolls
present participlelogrolling
past participlelogrolled
pastlogrolled
Noun
plurallogrolls

Origin of logroll

Back-formation from logrolling.

Words formed from logroll

Questions about logroll

What does logroll mean?
Logroll means to exchange favours, especially political favours.
What part of speech is logroll?
Logroll can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of logroll?
The past tense of logroll is logrolled.

Words near logroll in the dictionary

  1. Lograssos
  2. Logres
  3. Logrești
  4. Logria
  5. Logris
  6. logroll
  7. logrolled
  8. logroller
  9. logrollers
  10. logrolling
  11. logrollings

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