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The "arrive by vehicle" sense involves the notion of being on wheels (or, similarly, on tank treads); it is conceptually coordinate with walk up as in "approach"; thus, both can take to as preposition (e.g., roll up to, walk up to, belly up to).

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roll up (third-person singular simple present rolls up, present participle rolling up, simple past and past participle rolled up)

1. (transitive) To make something into a particular shape, especially cylindrical or fold-like.

   Antonyms: unroll, unscroll, roll down

   The shopkeeper had to roll up the poster to make it easier to carry.

   When they told you not to fold, spindle, or mutilate a punchcard, the spindling referred to rolling it up.

   He rolled up his shirt sleeves.

   1. (transitive) To pack up into a bundle or bindle.

      Synonyms: pack up, pack

      Antonyms: unroll, unpack

   2. (transitive) To create a cigar or cigarette, or a joint.

      The audacity of that man rolling up in court was astounding.

2. (transitive) To raise (a car window, rolling door, or rolling security barrier).

   Synonym: wind up

   Antonyms: roll down, wind down

   The shopkeeper had to roll up the security barrier to open the shop.

3. (roleplaying games, intransitive) To roll the dice necessary to create a character for a game, especially a role-playing game.
4. (intransitive) To arrive by vehicle, usually by car.

   We thought Jim would be late for the wedding, but then we saw him roll up in front of the church in his Mercedes.

   Don't be rolling up to my door without calling ahead.

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間投詞

roll up

1. Used to call the attention of potential purchasers.

   Roll up, roll up! Pies for sale!

名詞

roll up (plural roll ups)

1. Alternative form of rollup.

アナグラム

• uproll

語源

Deverbal from roll up.

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rollup (plural rollups)

1. A kind of food made by wrapping ingredients in another food, e.g. fajitas.

   Synonym: roll

   She ate a chicken rollup and a salad.

   • 2009, Jonathan Bryan, Questings: A Parable, page 50:

     He considered moving to the dining room, but ordered a fourth vodka martini and sent it down in three gulps to join a half-dozen bacon rollups and two baked cheese appetizers.

2. A kind of flat, pectin-based, fruit-flavored snack rolled into a tube.
3. A self-made cigarette of tobacco and rolling paper.

   Synonym: rollie

   I smoke rollups because they are cheaper than buying cigarettes.

4. A business technique where multiple small companies in the same market are acquired and merged.
   • 2013, Annette Risberg, Mergers & Acquisitions: A Critical Reader:

     In geographic rollups, it's more important to hold on to key employees — and customers — than to realize efficiencies quickly.

5. (computing) A collection of software updates distributed as a single package.
   • 2014, Michel de Rooij, Jaap Wesselius, Pro Exchange 2013 SP1 PowerShell Administration:

     Between issuance of service packs, Microsoft released update rollups for Exchange Server on a regular basis […]

6. That which is rolled up; a summation; an aggregation; a total.
   • 2013, Simon Lidberg, Getting Started with SQL Server 2012 Cube Development:

     In some cases, you may want to add custom rollups that change the way a measure is calculated on a specific level.

派生語

• fruit rollup

アナグラム

• uproll