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Verb: roll up
  1. Form a cylinder by rolling
    "roll up a banner";
    - wrap up
     
  2. Get or gather together (a large number of something)
    "She rolled up a small fortune";
    - collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard
     
  3. Make into a bundle
    "She rolled up the poster for transport";
    - bundle, bundle up
     
  4. Close (a car window) by causing it to move up, as with a handle
    "she rolled up the window when it started to rain"
     
  5. Arrive in a vehicle
    "The limousine rolled up to the red carpet"
     
  6. Show certain properties when being rolled
    "The carpet rolls up unevenly";
    - roll
Noun: roll-up  'rówl,úp
  1. [informal] A cigarette made by rolling tobacco in paper
    "He took out his tobacco pouch to make a roll-up";
    - roll-your-own [informal]
     
  2. [Austral, informal] The act of arriving or gathering
    "There was a good roll-up at the community meeting"
     
  3. (computing) consolidation of multiple records or data points into a single summary record
    "The database performs a daily roll-up of transaction data"

Derived forms: roll-ups, rolled up, rolls up, rolling up

See also: wind[2]

Type of: arrive, change, change surface, close, come, get, hive away, lay in, pack, put in, salt away, shut, stack away, stash away, store

Antonym: unfurl

Encyclopedia: Roll up

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