roly-poly
adjective
short and plumply round, as a person or a young animal.
roly-polies
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pluralof roly-poly.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The couple performed their Saturday night jive to Wilson Pickett's Land of 1000 Dances, making the studio audience cheer with excitement after executing a series of roly-polies.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2022
“When I was really small we’d get ants and roly-polies and make enclosures.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2022
Among the consumables: beaver bone soup, moose bone marrow, woodcock hung until it reached the desired “hallucinogenic point of decay,” caribou haunch, eels with sour-grass sauce, roly-polies and pandowdies.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2016
That night Stanton made two roly-polies of the blueberries we picked in the afternoon, boiling them in specimen bags, and we used the last of our sugar for sauce.
From The Long Labrador Trail by Dillon Wallace
