Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

roll deep

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.57 in modern English

Syllables: rol-l deep
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To travel in a group.

Slang

Example Sentences

"In that hood you gotta roll no less than thirty deep, aight dawg?"
"When I roll, I gots to roll deep"
""When you go to the club, Atlanta, roll deep," he said, advising his listeners to travel in packs. "That way, people won't be ready to start some drama with you if you've got some homies around.[…]""
"It was 1987, and she’d come to the international film festival for the first time as part of the ensemble cast of “Aria,” an anthology of 10 short films set to operatic music. The piece she was in had been directed by Derek Jarman, and the others were directed by the likes of Jean-Luc Godard, Bruce Beresford and Robert Altman. In other words: They were rolling deep. Or as the actress likes to say: carousing."

Usage

Slang

Inflected Forms

rolls deep (present, singular) rolling deep (participle, present) rolled deep (participle, past) rolled deep (past)

Questions

What does roll deep mean?: To travel in a group.

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