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  • noun Plural form of rollie.

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Examples

  • (I remember getting calls from friends in London selling their 'rollies' (Rolls Royces) for $10,000, the equivalent, I suppose, of the famous photos of men selling apples in the street on Wall Street after the crash of 1929).

    Max Keiser: Scandinavians Arrange Emergency Funds to Keep Hedge Fund Pirates From Destroying Iceland 2008

  • THE holy rollies are showing their high morel roots.

    SC Lt. Gov. to ask for Sanford's resignation 2009

  • Place I was at yesterday they were smoking Old Holborn rollies.

    Lighting-up Time Peter Ashley 2007

  • I can hear him wheezing behind me, gears clicking, throat ruined from all those rollies and I slow down, reminding myself that he paid for my bike, but he starts chatting again and I can't take it.

    Pink 2009

  • I can hear him wheezing behind me, gears clicking, throat ruined from all those rollies and I slow down, reminding myself that he paid for my bike, but he starts chatting again and I can't take it.

    Pink 2009

  • We are a nation of Willie Lomans, dragging our rollies through acres of airport, going through life with a suitcase and a slack jaw, trying to get home after a long day of meetings, of moving product.

    The View From Gate 14 Peggy Noonan 2008

  • Determined to show he’s a changed man, John has cut right back down on his drinking and has pledged to quit smoking rollies – two things that really annoyed Jennifer.

    Dear God, Is Jennifer Aniston Pregnant Now? 2008

  • Much love to: Sabrina, queen of the hill and best momma cat ever; Rascal Tadpole, the most tolerable easy-going cat ever born, Teresa Earnhardt, for her endless rollies of happiness; Soldier, for his patience of waiting his turn; Suprise, Starr, and Peter for their endless kittenish antics, and Sheen and Magic for their uncanny hunting abilities.

    Cats « Fairegarden 2008

  • I would have liked a treatise on * how* and * why* the early church incorporated the pagan symbols, the historical hue-and-cry that arose from both sides over the appropriation, and the present-day deniability that certain born - agains, Pentecostals, and Holy Rollers (fundies, tonguies, and rollies, according to a friend of mine) have attached to these self - same symbols.

    Sunlight Through The Shadows Magazine Volume 2 Issue 2 (ANSI Edition) 1994

  • What did they do, send him from Hendon to spend five years smoking rollies and living in a tent?

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

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