Roll-up meaning

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A food shaped into a cylinder, typically consisting of a flat ingredient rolled around a filling, as of a meat or vegetable.
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To move from one option position to another one that has a higher strike price. The old option position is liquidated before the new one is taken. Roll ups occur because the option is going to expire and the trader wants to retain the position.
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An exclamation used to get people's attention to sell something.

Roll up, roll up, pies for sale.

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Make into a cylinder by rolling.

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

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Make into a bundle.
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(intransitive) 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 the church in his Mercedes.

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(UK, informal) A self-made cigarette from tobacco and rolling paper. (Sometimes spelt as roll-up.)

I smoke roll ups rather than cigs, because they are cheaper.

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Roll-up Sentence Examples

  • I was reaching for his hanging suit when I heard an automobile roll up the driveway.

  • The timing was propitious, as black clouds had begun to roll up the valley and gather above them, the advance guard of a summer shower.

  • The allies, aware of the gradual strengthening of their enemy's forces but themselves as yet unable to put more than 200,000 in the field, had left a small corps of observation opposite Magdeburg and along the Elbe to give timely notice of an advance towards Berlin; and with the bulk of their forces had taken up a position about Dresden, whence they had determined to march down the course of the Elbe and roll up the French from right to left.

  • Wingless females of many tropical species present a close superficial resemblance to woodlice; and one interesting apterous form known as Pseudoglomeris, from the East Indies, is able to roll up like a millipede.

  • At last Burnside moved forward, and, after a brilliant defence by the handful of men left to oppose him, forced the Antietam and began to roll up Lee's right, only to be attacked in rear himself by A.

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