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rolldown

rolldown adjective: capable of being rolled down.

Adjective

rolldown (not comparable)

  1. Capable of being rolled down.
    • Then he rolled down the wooden blinds inside, opened the door and pulled halfway down the metal rolldown shutter outside.1992, Aras Ören, Please, no police

Noun

rolldown (countable and uncountable, plural rolldowns)

  1. (attributive, often, pinball) An older form of pinball where the player rolls a ball manually down the table rather than propelling it onto the table with a plunger.
    • New rolldown uses pinball-size balls and, except for the fact that the game has the conventional open rolldown table end and does not use a plunger, the game's playing surface resembles the pinball variation of Bermuda.1948 January 24, Billboard, page 76
    • Attracted by game operation, many invested heavily in pins and rolldowns prior to last spring.1949, Billboard, volume 61, page 82

Forms of rolldown

pluralrolldowns

Origin of rolldown

Deverbal from roll down.

Questions about rolldown

What does rolldown mean?
Rolldown means capable of being rolled down.
What part of speech is rolldown?
Rolldown can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near rolldown in the dictionary

  1. rollcages
  2. rollcall
  3. rollcalled
  4. rollcalling
  5. rollcalls
  6. rolldown
  7. rolldowns
  8. Rolle
  9. Rolle's theorem
  10. rolled
  11. rolled about

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