roll up

verb

rolled up; rolling up; rolls up

transitive verb

: to increase or acquire by successive accumulations : accumulate

rolled up a large majority

intransitive verb

1

: to become larger by successive accumulations

2

: to arrive in a vehicle

Synonyms

• accelerate
• accumulate
• appreciate
• balloon
• boom
• build up
• burgeon
• bourgeon
• climb
• enlarge
• escalate
• expand
• gain
• increase
• mount
• multiply
• mushroom
• proliferate
• rise
• snowball
• spread
• swell
• wax

Examples of roll up in a Sentence

ticket sales are expected to roll up as the date of the concert nears

Recent Examples on the Web

Harris, 38, stood beside her date in a beautiful blue double-breasted suit set with sleeves rolled up just enough for her many tattoos to show. —Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 26 June 2024

Does anyone in the universe make it? 13.8 Ultrarunning: the ultimate experience of being in the world Ultrarunning is a celebration of living and a rehearsal of dying all rolled up in a single intense experience. —Big Think, 24 June 2024

The 33-year-old victim was sitting on their stoop in East Williamsburg when the two young men, one riding a push scooter, rolled up about 5 p.m. May 13 and shouted a flurry of anti-LGBTQ slurs, cops said. —Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 22 May 2024

Stack the basil leaves on top of each other and roll up tightly into a log. —Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 13 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1822, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 2

Kids Definition

roll up

verb

: to build up by many additions one after the other

the winning candidate rolled up a large majority

Legal Definition

rollup

noun

roll·​up

ˈrōl-ˌəp

: limited partnership rollup transaction