(uncountable, historical) An activity or game involving rolling.
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Moving with a rolling and swaying motion.
"Oh! Mother, Mother, there has been an old man rat in the dairy—a dreadful 'normous big rat, mother; and he's stolen a pat of butter and the rolling-pin." "A rolling-pin?" said Ribby. "Did we not hear a roly-poly noise in the attic when …
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(often, childish, or, humorous, informal) Short and plump; squat.
Seianus bowed, the awkward roly-poly jerk of the fat man.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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