"roll around" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-roll around.ogg Forms: rolls around [present, singular, third-person], rolling around [participle, present], rolled around [participle, past], rolled around [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} roll around (third-person singular simple present rolls around, present participle rolling around, simple past and past participle rolled around)
  1. (intransitive) To move about on the ground while rotating and turning one's body. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-roll_around-en-verb-5lL5fg0x Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "around", Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 5 20 16 26 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "around": 27 6 18 19 30 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 37 3 20 22 18 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 32 2 17 19 29
  2. (intransitive) To be considered, without much coherence, in someone's mind. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-roll_around-en-verb-koFoMokk
  3. (intransitive, slang) To indulge in sexual intercourse (with). Tags: intransitive, slang
    Sense id: en-roll_around-en-verb-5iYn7qIK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "around", Pages with entries, Sex Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 5 20 16 26 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "around": 27 6 18 19 30 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 32 2 17 19 29 Disambiguation of Sex: 0 0 100 0 0 Synonyms: bump nasties, have sex, tumble, Formal terms, approach [archaic, euphemistic], cohabit [archaic], company [obsolete], copulate, couple, engage in sex, exchange flesh [euphemistic], have intimate relations, have marital relations [euphemistic], have sex, have sexual relations, intercourse, know, know someone in the biblical sense, make love [euphemistic], mate, share a bed [euphemistic], sleep together [euphemistic], strain [obsolete], Informal and slang terms, bang, bauf [rare], beat [UK], bone, boff, boink, bonk, bop, bounce [African-American-Vernacular-English], breed, bump nasties, bump uglies, catch a dick, dance [euphemistic], discuss Uganda [UK, euphemistic, humorous], dip one's pen in someone's inkwell [euphemistic], do it [euphemistic], do the deed [euphemistic], do the nasty [euphemistic], eff [euphemistic], engender [obsolete], expletive deleted [euphemistic, humorous, rare], feck [Ireland, euphemistic], frack [euphemistic], frak [euphemistic], frick [euphemistic], frig [euphemistic], fuck, get busy, get down, get freaky, get it [euphemistic], get it on, get jiggy, get laid, get lucky, get one's dick wet, get one's end away, get one's freak on [US, idiomatic], get one's groove on, get one's leg over [UK], get one's oats, get physical, get some [US, euphemistic], get the dirty water off one's chest [UK, idiomatic], graft the forked tree [obsolete, rare], go all the way [euphemistic], haul one's ashes [euphemistic], have it away, have it off, hide the salami [euphemistic], hide the sausage [euphemistic], hide the wienie [euphemistic], hike the Appalachian Trail [US, euphemistic, humorous], hook up, hump, jig-jig, knock boots, lay pipe, lay the pipe, make it [idiomatic], make out, make the beast with two backs, make whoopee, meddle [US, dialectal], ming [obsolete], Netflix and chill [euphemistic], penetrate, pipe down, play, play hide the sausage, rail, ride, rock and roll [US, dated, euphemistic], roger, roll around, root, screw, see someone's etchings [euphemistic], sex [US], shag, shelve [Wales], show someone one's etchings [euphemistic], slap bellies, stick [US], tumble
  4. (intransitive, colloquial) To laugh very heartily. Tags: colloquial, intransitive Synonyms: roll about
    Sense id: en-roll_around-en-verb-Vpgs68-q Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "around", Pages with entries, Laughter Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 5 20 16 26 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "around": 27 6 18 19 30 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 32 2 17 19 29 Disambiguation of Laughter: 16 1 25 33 26
  5. (intransitive) Of a time or event: to come up; to happen. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-roll_around-en-verb-tihCRDXR Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs formed with "around", Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 5 20 16 26 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs formed with "around": 27 6 18 19 30 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 32 2 17 19 29

Inflected forms

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          "word": "get one's freak on"
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          "word": "get the dirty water off one's chest"
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          "word": "graft the forked tree"
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          "word": "go all the way"
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          "word": "haul one's ashes"
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          "word": "have it away"
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          "word": "have it off"
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          "word": "hide the salami"
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          "word": "hide the sausage"
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          "word": "hike the Appalachian Trail"
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          "word": "jig-jig"
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          "word": "knock boots"
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          "word": "lay pipe"
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          "word": "show someone one's etchings"
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          "word": "stick"
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