roll-your-own
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.70 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "[…]and when you raise the 10-cent cigarette, on which you get the same tax as you do on the higher-priced cigarette, the increase in roll-your-owns will go right ahead and cause a diminution in consumption due to that higher cost."
- "You remember that, first of all, you never smoked anything but roll-your-owns? Tasman Gold Cut, and Zigzag rice papers. And you had this neat way of being able to roll a thin tight cigarette without looking at what your fingers were doing."
- "A great many pipe smokers, apart from the many who simply died of old age, seem to have shifted to roll-your-owns, while a significant proportion of the tailor-made market went to women and younger male smokers."
- "[…] a director of KARL, likes the roll-your-own approach and is finishing up a 1500-watt […]"
- "However the emphasis of early networkers and computing services (not “where to go” just “how to get there”) can puzzle users new to the “roll-your-own” approach of research and scientific computing."
- "RAM ICs, floppy controllers and other roll-your-own computer parts, right on up to complete motherboards and whole machines, are in great supply."