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Roll it up, on the other hand, can be used as a yell of encouragement to baseball infielders, exhorting them to complete a 6-4-3 double play.
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etaoin's suggestion would make it sound to me like he meant to keep it, possibly with some effort put into refurbishing it, but going by belligerentyouth's idea, he would mean to replace it.
actually, I was thinking more on the lines of upgrading. when I think of "rolling over" a loan, it means(to me), to take the current lease and move it to a better rate. which I guess does imply keeping it, but I hadn't thought of it that way. I have to say, I understood what hugby meant, certainly in context. he just sounds like a hip dude, cutting some new lingo.
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I have heard police yell "roll it" at rubberneckers who wanted to slow down and gawk at an accident, meaning they should step on it and not cause traffic back up.
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Faldage - the phrase 'turn it!!!' is the one I'm most familiar with when referring to completing a double play. In my 27 years of playing ball, can't say I've EVER heard 'roll it up'.
Perhaps another regional kinda thang??
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It was used commonly among the players in the summer collegiate wooden bat league I followed closely during the '90s.
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senor faldaje says: I'd have to hear Huggy use the phrase in contextOkay, it seems you're all correct, in various ways. here's the libretto, nearest i can remember it: Hugby, to contractor who is set to remodel the billards room which contains a 5-year old big screen; the new version will contain a media center to hold the TV: "well i think i'll just roll that TV and get a widescreen digital so that the cabinet can be built to the proper dimensions" i took it to mean necessarily purchasing the replacement, but after reading your collective responses i've asked hugby for some clarification, and this is what i've gleaned: "roll means to turn, to move, to change ~ roll it over and bring a new one in. it's a circular thing ~ out with the old in with the new. it can be a drug reference; "roll it to so and so"; quickly turn it to cash. "it's also a reference to putting it on wheels and rolling it outta here, get top dollar while you still can." In answer to your question, wwh ~ the region where this term was/is so common is right next to yours: Venice Beach!
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It could be that he meant to trash it. Seems to me there's a large trash bin called a roll-off. Could this mean to place it in the roll-off?
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Welcome Verlangen. Don't be a stranger (means to post enough so you graduate to newbie or whatever it is just up the chain from that unfortunate almost unwelcoming word stranger.)
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Welcome Verlangen. Don't be a stranger (means to post enough so you graduate to newbie or whatever it is just up the chain from that unfortunate almost unwelcoming word stranger.)
I somehow think that Verlangen might know that, TEd ...
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Over 70 The picture that pops into my mind is a TV set being rolled over by one of those huge machines the Highway Departments use to tamp down an asphalt road. Never hear the phrase in New England .... only reference I have is film where director says "roll it '': to start cameras and move actors!
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think i'll just roll that TV and get a widescreen digitalA belated Britlish response, Verlangen: I'd understand "roll that TV" as simply "scrap that TV". The image comes to mind of a TV set rolling down into a tip, breaking apart as it does so, probably in slow motion . However, I have a dim recollection of hearing criminals talk of "rolling" stolen goods, meaning to sell them on quickly and replace them with "clean" goods (or better yet, money). Oh, TV criminals, of course.
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