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アナグラム

• Martorelles

語源

From steam +‎ roller.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈstimˌroʊlɚ/

名詞

steamroller (plural steamrollers)

1. (historical) A steam-powered heavy road roller.
2. (by extension, informal) Any heavy road roller.
3. (figurative) Any seemingly irresistible force.
   • 1970, James Taylor, “Steamroller Blues”:

     Well, I'm a steamroller, babe / I'm bound to roll all over you

   • 2025 August 22, Mike Henson, “England open World Cup with 11-try win over USA”, in BBC Sport‎:

     England's last line-out in World Cup rugby had been stolen by New Zealand in a dramatic conclusion to the final three years ago, but the driving maul remains a potent weapon and flanker Sadia Kabeya was decisive as England fired up the steamroller once more.

4. (slang) A pipe, used for smoking cannabis, open at both ends and having a bowl near one end.
   • 2005, Jane Smiley, John Kulka, Natalie Danford, editors, Best New American Voices 2006, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 242:

     It's more about him testing his wares. He rolls joints. He doesn't own a bong, hookah, smoking pipe, chillum, vaporizer, scale, dugout system, grinder, or steamroller.

派生語

• Russian steamroller

動詞

steamroller (third-person singular simple present steamrollers, present participle steamrollering, simple past and past participle steamrollered)

1. (transitive) To level a road using a steamroller.

   Synonym: steamroll

2. (transitive, figurative) To proceed ruthlessly against all opposition as if with an overwhelming force.

   Synonyms: overpower, steamroll

参考

• steam power
• steam engine
• steam tractor
• steam locomotive
• steam shovel

Further reading

• steamroller on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Martorelles