"roll up on" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-roll up on.ogg [Australia] Forms: rolls up on [present, singular, third-person], rolling up on [participle, present], rolled up on [participle, past], rolled up on [past]
Etymology: From roll up + on; semantically and morphologically parallel with roll up + to. Etymology templates: {{m|en|roll up}} roll up, {{m|en|on}} on, {{m|en|roll up}} roll up, {{m|en|to}} to Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} roll up on (third-person singular simple present rolls up on, present participle rolling up on, simple past and past participle rolled up on)
  1. (African-American Vernacular, slang) To sneak up to (someone or something) with the intention of causing harm. Tags: slang

Inflected forms

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