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steamrollers

steamrollers is the plural of steamroller.

steamrollers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of steamroller.

Meaning of steamroller

Noun

steamroller (plural steamrollers)

  1. (historical) A steam-powered heavy road roller.
  2. (broadly, informal) Any heavy road roller.
  3. (figuratively) Any seemingly irresistible force.
    • Well, I'm a steamroller, babe / I'm bound to roll all over you1970, James Taylor, “Steamroller Blues”
  4. (slang) A pipe, used for smoking cannabis, open at both ends and having a bowl near one end.
    • It's more about him testing his wares. He rolls joints. He doesn't own a bong, hookah, smoking pipe, chillum, vaporizer, scale, dugout system, grinder, or steamroller.2005, Jane Smiley, John Kulka, Natalie Danford, editors, Best New American Voices 2006, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 242

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Questions about steamrollers

What is steamrollers the plural of?
Steamrollers is the plural of steamroller.

Words near steamrollers in the dictionary

  1. steamroll
  2. steamrolled
  3. steamroller
  4. steamrollered
  5. steamrollering
  6. steamrollers
  7. steamrolling
  8. steamrolls
  9. steams
  10. steams ahead
  11. steams off

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