if you roll a car window up, you turn a handle or push a button so that the window goes up
if you roll your sleeves or the legs of your trousers up, you fold the cloth several times until they are shorter
same as roll
to arrive somewhere late or at a time when you were not expected
used for getting people’s attention when you want to tell them to come and watch something or take part in something
He had returned from his outing in a mood to roll up his sleeves and start in at once on his soap opera.
He indicated a steel roll-up type double door on the far right wall.
His gaze was blurred by drink but at least his eyes didn't roll up.
Kemp got up and retrieved the burning roll-up from the carpet where it had fallen from the man's fingers.
She rolled her scarf up and put it into her bag.
The old junk sailors even used to roll up a reed sail and use it for a life raft if they were shipwrecked.
The sleeves of his shirt were rolled up to the elbow.
There was a keen, intelligent aura to Robert Patrick Malone for a moment, and then he returned to assembling his roll-up cigarette.
They eventually rolled up at lunchtime.
Tomorrow I could roll up outside the police station with the photograph and stir things up.
rolls up
rolling up
rolled up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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