rolling

Etymology

adj

1. (colloquial) Drunk; intoxicated from alcohol, staggering.
2. Staggered in time and space.
   a 90-day rolling business plan
   rolling blackouts or brownouts
3. Moving by turning over and over about an axis.
4. Extending in gentle undulations (of the landscape).
   From Blackwater there is a more or less level run through gently rolling farmlands and downs to Merstone, with its island platform and passing loop. 1946 July and August, K. Westcott Jones, “Isle of Wight Central Railway—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 243
   2002, Russell Allen & Michael Romeo, "Part II - Journey to Ithaca" of "The Odyssey", "Incantations of the Apprentice", on Symphony X, The Odyssey. I miss the rolling hills of Ithaca
5. Making a continuous sound.
6. (slang) Short for rolling in it (“very wealthy”).
   Why one man who used to take me out, who was absolutely rolling, never tipped anyone. 1938, Barbara Cartland, Broken Barriers

verb

1. present participle and gerund of roll

noun

1. The act by which something is rolled.
   Refrigerating the dough between rollings and foldings also makes the dough easy to handle and prevents the butter from becoming too soft. 2007, Greg Patent, Dave McLean, A Baker's Odyssey