roll-your-own
roll-your-own noun: a type of cigarette made by the smoker by rolling loose tobacco in a rectangle of paper.
Noun
roll-your-own (plural roll-your-owns)
- A type of cigarette made by the smoker by rolling loose tobacco in a rectangle of paper.
- […]and when you raise the 10-cent cigarette, on which you get the same tax as you do on the higher-priced cigarette, the increase in roll-your-owns will go right ahead and cause a diminution in consumption due to that higher cost.1979, Bernard D. Reams, Internal Revenue Acts of the United States, 1909-1950: Legislative Histories, Laws, and Administrative Documents, volume 29, page 143
- You remember that, first of all, you never smoked anything but roll-your-owns? Tasman Gold Cut, and Zigzag rice papers. And you had this neat way of being able to roll a thin tight cigarette without looking at what your fingers were doing.1986, Keri Hulme, Te Kaihau: The Windeater, page 108
- Antonyms:
- tailor-made
Adjective
roll-your-own
- Built for oneself as opposed to purchased ready-made.
- […] a director of KARL, likes the roll-your-own approach and is finishing up a 1500-watt […]1966, QST, page 83
- However the emphasis of early networkers and computing services (not “where to go” just “how to get there”) can puzzle users new to the “roll-your-own” approach of research and scientific computing.1990, Peter Stone, JANET: A Report on Its Use for Libraries, British Library Research and Development Department, →ISBN, page 26
Examples of roll-your-own in a sentence
- RAM ICs, floppy controllers and other roll-your-own computer parts, right on up to complete motherboards and whole machines, are in great supply.1991, 73:
- The disadvantages to roll-your-own are that the company is responsible for managing VPN configurations, and because traffic is transversing the Internet, there are no performance guarantees.2002 April 8, Irwin Lazar, “Variations on a VPN theme”, in Network World, page 45:
- As you can see from the chart, Diver’s Security has an unusual, roll-your-own approach that allows you to combine four plans, each covering a different type of injury or expense.2004, Scuba Diving, page 91:
Synonyms of roll-your-own
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Forms of roll-your-own
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Questions about roll-your-own
- What does roll-your-own mean?
- Roll-your-own means a type of cigarette made by the smoker by rolling loose tobacco in a rectangle of paper.
- How do you use roll-your-own in a sentence?
- RAM ICs, floppy controllers and other roll-your-own computer parts, right on up to complete motherboards and whole machines, are in great supply.
- What part of speech is roll-your-own?
- Roll-your-own can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of roll-your-own?
- The plural of roll-your-own is roll-your-owns.
Words near roll-your-own in the dictionary
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