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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]roll in (third-person singular simple present rolls in, present participle rolling in, simple past and past participle rolled in)
- (intransitive, of a person) To arrive casually at a place.
- (intransitive) To come in an unstoppable flow.
- The money keeps on rolling in.
- The clouds rolled in and it soon began to rain.
- The tide rolls in.
- (snooker, transitive) To pot with minimal force.
- He rolled the red in dead weight, and now he's nicely on the blue.
- To come in (to a station, yard). (e.g. of a train)
- 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
- As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.