Chiefly British slang for a hand-rolled cigarette.
I hope they print it on the same paper they use for Bibles so you can tear the pages out and use them as rollie papers.
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Chiefly British slang for a hand-rolled cigarette. Rolling your own tobacco is a long-standing tradition in the UK, both for cost savings and personal preference, and the term rollie (sometimes spelled rolly) is the affectionate shorthand smokers use for the result. You'll hear it in pubs, on street corners, and in any conversation where someone asks if they can cadge a smoke.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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He leaned against the wall outside the pub, licking the edge of a rollie before sparking it up.
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(slang, chiefly, UK) A cigarette rolled by hand.
"rollie" means a cigarette rolled by hand. It is one of many casual words teens pick up from friends, social media, music or sport, and on its own it carries no particular warning. If you hear your teen use it, it is fair to ask what they mean by it in their friend group, since meanings drift quickly. Asking out of curiosity rather than alarm tends to keep the conversation open and useful.
"rollie" is informal English meaning a cigarette rolled by hand. It is mainly heard in British English (and Irish English). A more formal or neutral equivalent would be something like "a cigarette rolled by hand" expressed in standard vocabulary. A common mistake is to assume "rollie" can replace its standard equivalent in every register; keep it for spoken or casual situations and use the formal form in writing. If you are a B2 or C1 learner, it is useful to recognise this word when you hear or read it, but think carefully about whether the situation really calls for it before using it yourself.
“I hope they print it on the same paper they use for Bibles so you can tear the pages out and use them as rollie papers.”
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