to roll up
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6.0
- phrasal verb
- /roʊl ʌp/
- Informal
:
llegar
- Where we see Jessie's Lexus roll up, as well as the other car with the girls inside.
- car rolled up
- bus rolled up
- truck rolled up
In the woods, people roll up, bring a little treat.
- In the woods, people roll up, bring a little treat.
- But God forbid I roll up with a damn nut skin belt, fresh nut.
- Like Mike, Ike chilling on my bike, rolling up to the street.
- You can't have Kyrie Irving roll up in the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia.
- So you know, these people that would roll up, they know my mom, they know my dad.
- And I will not say that on on this show, but they rolled up the safe house where it was.
- So I'm just envisioning Adam Skolnick rolling up on this situation with his swim mask.
- You know what the hell you did, you know, And I would roll up on them like that.
- Like was that uncomfortable for you to be that open and vulnerable and, and like roll up on strangers when you're passing through?
- This was after I got out of this place and he rolled up to me at Embarcadero.
- Yes, Native American Heritage Cultural Month and and yes, I rolled up on my boy, my boy Dreamer.
Examples
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The truck rolled up, stopped, and Culphert got out with a bag.
Fiction book (1993) -
Can we go now, before a police car rolls up.
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So you know, these people that would roll up, they know my mom, they know my dad.
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It's probably best for women to not roll up on men the way that men often roll up on women.
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Bill and the others roll up to the gate.
Fiction book (2001) -
We are rolling up to Grandpapa's house.
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And when we roll up, she'll be so happy to see us, she'll just hop right in the van.
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It's like, wait, did this dude just roll up in a stormtrooper costume?
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The cops roll up.
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When we roll up to the party, everyone will notice our arrival.
Synonyms
520
1.7
To move closer to a person or place
163
2.8
To stop or slow down a vehicle at a place
70
3.1
To go to a place in a vehicle and stop near it
48
3.3
To come in steadily or in large numbers
1
6.0
Stop a car or taxi at the side of a road
Antonyms
How Noticeable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The sense 'to close a car window by moving it upward' is directly derivable from combining a motion notion in 'roll' (to move/turn) with the directional particle 'up' (upward movement). This motion + particle composition is a regular, compositional pattern in English (and mirrored in many languages), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents can readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Roll up may come from vehicles that keep their wheels turning as they arrive at a place. Picture a car's wheels that roll as the car comes up and stops at the door. So, roll up came to mean 'to arrive'.