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▸ noun:  (countable)
▸ noun:  A toy that rights itself when pushed over.
▸ noun:  (informal) A short, plump person (especially a child).
▸ noun:  (gymnastics) A forward roll or sideways roll.
▸ noun:  (Australia) Synonym of tumbleweed (“any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots once dry, forming a light, rolling mass which is driven by the wind from place to place”); specifically, the prickly Russian thistle (Kali tragus or Salsola tragus).
▸ noun:  (British, also attributively) A baked or steamed pudding made from suet pastry which is spread with fruit or jam (or occasionally other fillings) and then rolled up.
▸ noun:  (Canada, US) In full roly-poly bug: a small terrestrial invertebrate which tends to roll into a ball when disturbed, such as a woodlouse (suborder Oniscidea, especially a pill bug (family Armadillidiidae) or a sowbug (family Porcellionidae)) or a pill millipede (superorder Oniscomorpha).
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A mischievous or worthless person; a scoundrel, a rascal.
▸ noun:  (uncountable, historical) An activity or game involving rolling.
▸ noun:  (games) A game involving people (usually children) rolling down a slope.
▸ noun:  (games) A game in which balls are rolled along the floor to knock down pins, or bowled into holes, or thrown into hats placed on the ground.
▸ noun:  (gaming) Synonym of roulette (“a game of chance in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game”)
▸ adjective:  Moving with a rolling and swaying motion.
▸ adjective:  (often childish or humorous, informal) Short and plump; squat.
▸ adverb:  By rolling, so as to roll.
▸ adverb:  (obsolete) Without hesitating; directly; hence, in a thoughtless manner; indiscriminately.




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