logroll
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- logroller noun
Etymology
Origin of logroll
1825–35, back formation from logrolling
Vocabulary lists containing logroll
U.S. Government - Middle School and High School
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Example Sentences
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The week before Kitzbühel, in a Swiss bar, he’d chipped a tooth while trying to logroll a barrel.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019
Formal peer review does not allow for free and quick exchange; it pushes scientists behind a veil of anonymity so they can snipe in secret or logroll for their friends.
From Slate • Jan. 30, 2015
Trading the one for the other is a reasonable logroll.
From Slate • Dec. 15, 2011
An "internal improvements" bill, calling for the expenditure of $10 million or $12 million on railroads and waterways, gave them their chance to logroll.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Poet poses publicly, the Scribe Knows how to vaunt, to logroll, and to bribe.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 20, 1892 by Various
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