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slow roll

slow roll verb: to make a long pause before calling an all-in bet with a strong, usually very strong, hand.

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
    • “Aah! What did you do?” “Vulcans do not require as much sleep as humans, so I spent the night fully repairing the shuttle.” “Aw, this is terrible.” “I am failing to find the logic in your dissatisfaction.” “I was trying to slow-roll the repairs.” “Slow-roll?” “Tendi and I used to work on this every...2024 October 24, Keith Foglesong, “Shades of Green” (18:52 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 5, episode 2, spoken by Samanthan Rutherford (Eugene Cordero)

Noun

slow roll (plural slow rolls)

  1. (slang) An instance of slow rolling.
    • Saw a very strange slow roll last night in a $20/$40 game. A guy raises with KK and another player calls, all-in, with 99. Flop and turn are rainbow rags. Then, for reasons known only to him and God, the dealer decides to get cute with the river card. He peeks at the corner, pauses dramatically...2007, Irish Mike, “A strange slow roll”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet)
  2. A maneuver in which the aircraft makes a complete rotation around its roll axis while maintaining a straight and level flight path.

Forms of slow roll

Verb
third-person singular presentslow rolls
present participleslow rolling
past participleslow rolled
pastslow rolled
alternative formslow-roll
alternative formslowroll
Noun
pluralslow rolls

Questions about slow roll

What does slow roll mean?
Slow roll means to make a long pause before calling an all-in bet with a strong, usually very strong, hand.
What part of speech is slow roll?
Slow roll can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of slow roll?
The past tense of slow roll is slow rolled.

Words near slow roll in the dictionary

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  6. slow roll
  7. slow rolled
  8. slow rolling
  9. slow rolls
  10. slow slicing
  11. slow speed control

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