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- noun Plural form of
roller .
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Examples
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The message constantly pounded into the heads of the less bright holy rollers is that God rewards the virtuous with wealth and power.
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With N rods inhibited, the force required to push the track past the rollers is given in the diagram above.
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She's blown air-kisses to the crowd, waved at women in rollers who have come running, screaming, from beauty parlors, and stood quietly looking out over the landscape.
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Delicate silk was processed on porcelain rollers to create fine, uneven pleats, one of his many innovations.
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And then setting their hair in rollers or braiding it or putting pretty ribbons in their hair.
Mood Lifters 2008
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She's blown air-kisses to the crowd, waved at women in rollers who have come running, screaming, from beauty parlors, and stood quietly looking out over the landscape.
Full Michigan delegation with half-vote to be seated by Dems 2008
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What curious things I've seen along the way: Faye Dunaway in rollers waiting for cash at a poky ATM; Catherine Zeta-Jones exchanging what looks to be insurance information with a Volvo driver come afoul of her supertanker SUV; Maria Shriver stepping smartly out of mass while her husband trots behind her.
The Tabloid Habit 2001
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What curious things I've seen along the way: Faye Dunaway in rollers waiting for cash at a poky ATM; Catherine Zeta-Jones exchanging what looks to be insurance information with a Volvo driver come afoul of her supertanker SUV; Maria Shriver stepping smartly out of mass while her husband trots behind her.
The Tabloid Habit 2001
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Outside the ocean stretched unbroken to the horizon, almost under foot it broke in rollers over the rocks after a storm, or swished in and out of deep gulleys on quiet days.
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Channel rollers from the boat in which he had Nejmi and his man Marco.
alexz commented on the word rollers
a set of rollers used by cyclists for training indoors. the bike sits on a pair of back rollers which are mechanically linked to the front roller which lets a cyclist spin wheels indoors.
January 12, 2013