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slow-roll

slow-roll is the alternative form of slow roll.

Meaning of slow roll

Verb

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

  1. (slang) To make a long pause before calling an all-in bet with a strong, usually very strong, hand.
  2. (slang) To make a long pause before revealing one's winning hand.
  3. (broadly, transitive) To obstruct by delaying; to slow-walk.
    • The president is upset with congressional leaders for slow-rolling his core campaign promise, and for failing to defund sanctuary cities in their spending bill.2018 March 21, Elaina Plott, “Trump Vents His Anger Over Border-Wall Funding”, in The Atlantic

See all 5 meanings of slow roll

Forms of slow-roll

third-person singular presentslow-rolls
present participleslow-rolling
past participleslow-rolled
pastslow-rolled

Questions about slow-roll

What is slow-roll the alternative form of?
Slow-roll is the alternative form of slow roll.

Words near slow-roll in the dictionary

  1. slow-motion
  2. slow-motional
  3. slow-moving
  4. slow-paced
  5. slow-pitch
  6. slow-roll
  7. slow-rolled
  8. slow-rolling
  9. slow-rolls
  10. slow-up
  11. slow-walk

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slow-roll (page history and authors); slow roll (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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