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rolled in

rolled in is the simple past and past participle of roll in.

Meaning of roll in

Verb

roll in (third-person singular simple present rolls in, present participle rolling in, simple past and past participle rolled in)

  1. (intransitive) To arrive casually at a place.
    • He rolled in five minutes late, without even saying sorry.
    Antonyms:
    head out, roll out
  2. (intransitive) To come in an unstoppable flow.
    • The money keeps on rolling in.
  3. (transitive) To pot with minimal force.
    • He rolled the red in dead weight, and now he's nicely on the blue.
  4. (intransitive) To come in (to a station, yard). (e.g. of a train)
    • As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68

Questions about rolled in

What is rolled in the simple past and past participle of?
Rolled in is the simple past and past participle of roll in.

Words near rolled in in the dictionary

  1. rolled fillet
  2. rolled fillets
  3. rolled gold
  4. rolled golds
  5. rolled ice cream
  6. rolled in
  7. rolled in dough
  8. rolled in one's grave
  9. rolled in the aisles
  10. rolled in wealth
  11. rolled into one

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