roll-your-ownadj.n.
/ˌrəʊljərˈəʊn/, U.S. /ˈroʊlˌjəˈroʊn/ A. adj. (attributive).
1. Of a cigarette: made by hand-rolling. Also of tobacco: used to fill hand-rolled cigarettes.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [adjective] > type of cigarette
bird's eye1877
gold-tipped1890
mentholated1895
cork-tipped1907
king-size1909
roll-your-own1911
tailor-made1924
filter-tipped1927
king-sized1940
roll-up1948
filterless1956
tipped1964
untipped1968
unfiltered1976
1911 Atlanta Constit. 10 May 15/5 (advt.) For roll-your-own cigarettes, Stud [tobacco] is the thing.
1958 N. Levine Canada made Me iii. 88 Outside my window empty cigarette packages, roll-your-own-tobacco, broken whisky bottles,..lay in the melting snow on the side of the hill.
1978 W. Taylor Twilight Hour 30 That evening I handed round my box of cigars, but everyone seemed to prefer their roll-your-own cigarettes.
2005 Sunday Times (Nexis) 8 Jan. (Business section) 10 Roll-your-own tobacco, traditionally seen as the preserve of hard-up students and hippies.., is pencilled in for growth of 8.1% up to 2009.
2. figurative. Home-made, do-it-yourself; makeshift; customized.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > recourse > [adjective] > makeshift
extemporal1626
extemporary1631
extempore1694
extemporaneous1725
impromptu1764
makeshift1824
makeshifty1858
spot-made1894
make-do1923
roll-your-own1942
Band-Aid1970
1942 Pop. Mech. May 158 (heading) ‘Roll your own’ all-wave 3-circuit tuner.
1984 Network World (Nexis) 2 May 76 As products mature, new software becomes available that reduces the amount of ‘roll your own’ programming.
2001 Wired July 120/1 Turning every car into a roll-your-own generator is just one potential expression of the most radical shift in the emerging business model for energy vending.
B. n.
A hand-rolled cigarette; = roll-up n. 1d.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > thing which may be smoked > cigarette > other types of cigarette
Russian cigarette1851
papirosa1856
Egyptian1892
Russian1892
tickler1904
joystick1911
gyppy1920
king-size1920
Sobranie1923
virgin1923
Turk1926
roll-your-own1932
ready roll1949
roll-up1950
filter1956
filterless1956
rollie1964
Virginia1964
untipped1968
primo1986
1932 Chicago Tribune 19 Mar. 10/6 The butts of two kinds of cigarets. One kind was a roll-your-own and the other a tailor-made.
1937 King Country Chron. 22 Oct. 5 I suppose it is a bit of a blow—coming back to New Zealand and down to roll-your-owns and beer.
1977 Canadian (Toronto) 12 Feb. 8/3 I pick up a notebook and a package of cigarette tobacco... I..hoped my expression didn't change while building a beautiful roll-your own in four seconds flat.
1987 K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1989) 95 Mouche was licking the lip of a roll-your-own... She inserted the cigarette in her mouth.
2008 Irish Times (Nexis) 1 Sept. 14 He readies himself to head off for a roll-your-own in the rain.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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