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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1v.
place tobacco into a small rectangle of paper and make a cigarette by rolling the paper round the tobacco with a deft motion of the fingers and thumbs.
Quotations
1892
He slowly rolled a cigarette and replied: "He says it's a scandal that I live at Fort Anne."
1960
"Looks sixty. Thin face. Dark. Looks a little Indian but not our kind of Indian. Rolls his own. . . ."
2v. — Lumbering, Slang
roll one's blanket (or bundle), quit the job.
Quotations
1953
Rolled my bundle, hiking down the trail,
When--Through the night cam a donkey's wail
'Twas the crew, out yarding, crazy as a loon
and they logged another million by the silvery moon.
When--Through the night cam a donkey's wail
'Twas the crew, out yarding, crazy as a loon
and they logged another million by the silvery moon.
1956
[If] he didn't like the donkey puncher . . . he would roll his blanket and head for town.