"roll around town" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-roll around town.wav Forms: rolls around town [present, singular, third-person], rolling around town [participle, present], rolled around town [participle, past], rolled around town [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} roll around town (third-person singular simple present rolls around town, present participle rolling around town, simple past and past participle rolled around town)
  1. (informal, idiomatic) To spend time in public. Tags: idiomatic, informal
    Sense id: en-roll_around_town-en-verb-zAR11zoG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "I can give you that life. I can roll around town with a girl like you.",
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        "To spend time in public."
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        "(informal, idiomatic) To spend time in public."
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