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rolling stones

rolling stones is the plural of rolling stone.

Meaning of rolling stone

Noun

rolling stone (plural rolling stones)

  1. (idiomatic) A person who moves around a lot and never settles down; a vagrant.
    • Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job.1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá
  2. (slang) A womanizer.
    • Papa was a rolling stone
      Wherever he laid his hat was his home
      And when he died, all he left us was a loan1972, Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield, “Papa Was a Rollin' Stone”
  3. A geological phenomenon where rocks move and inscribe long tracks along a smooth valley floor without animal or human intervention.
  4. A meteoroid.

See all 5 meanings of rolling stone

Noun capitalized: Rolling Stones

Rolling Stones

  1. (plural) plural of Rolling Stone

Questions about rolling stones

What is rolling stones the plural of?
Rolling stones is the plural of rolling stone.
What part of speech is rolling stones?
Rolling stones is a noun.

Words near rolling stones in the dictionary

  1. rolling start
  2. rolling starts
  3. rolling stock
  4. rolling stocks
  5. rolling stone
  6. rolling stones
  7. rolling stop
  8. rolling stops
  9. rolling takeoff
  10. rolling takeoffs
  11. rolling tape

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