If you roll your eyes or if your eyes roll, they move round and upwards. People sometimes roll their eyes when they are frightened, bored, or annoyed. People may roll their eyes and talk about overprotective, interfering grandmothers His eyes rolled and he sobbed
A roll is a small piece of bread that is round or long and is made to be eaten by one person. Rolls can be eaten plain, with butter, or with a filling. He spread butter on a roll
A roll is an official list of people's names. the electoral roll. = register see also rolling, rock and roll, sausage roll
On percussion instruments, a sticking technique consisting of a rapid succession of notes
The rotation of a car's body about a longitudinal axis Also less accurately called "sway" or "lean," it occurs in corners because the car's center of gravity is almost always higher than the axis about which it rotates
A roll of paper, plastic, cloth, or wire is a long piece of it that has been wrapped many times around itself or around a tube. The photographers had already shot a dozen rolls of film. see also toilet roll
To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface; as, to roll a wheel, a ball, or a barrel
If you roll up something such as a car window or a blind, you cause it to move upwards by turning a handle. If you roll it down, you cause it to move downwards by turning a handle. In mid-afternoon, shopkeepers began to roll down their shutters