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scroller

scroller noun: one who, or that which, scrolls.

Noun

scroller (plural scrollers)

  1. One who, or that which, scrolls.
    • So, this final challenge is for the readers of stories, the watchers of television news, the scrollers of online media. Fund the journalism you want to see.2021, Bernadine Jones, Elections and TV News in South Africa: Desperately Seeking Depth, page 233
    • My girlfriend Fran is a chronic scroller. She always seems to have her phone in her hand when we are watching something, or having a conversation.2024 September 27, Georgina Lawton, “You be the judge: should my girlfriend stop scrolling on her phone while we’re watching TV?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  2. Synonym of scrolly (“scrolling message”).
    • In fact there were already such scrollers before but as the creators told it in the scroller, they wrote this routine two years before releasing the demo […]2005, Tamás Polgár, Freax: The Brief History of the Demoscene, volume 1, page 65
    Synonyms:
    scrolly

Synonyms of scroller

Forms of scroller

pluralscrollers

Origin of scroller

From scroll + -er.

Words formed from scroller

Questions about scroller

What does scroller mean?
Scroller means one who, or that which, scrolls.
What part of speech is scroller?
Scroller is a noun.
What is the plural of scroller?
The plural of scroller is scrollers.

Words near scroller in the dictionary

  1. scrollable
  2. scrollback
  3. scrollbar
  4. scrollbars
  5. scrolled
  6. scroller
  7. scrolleries
  8. scrollers
  9. scrollery
  10. scrollhead
  11. scrollheads

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