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单词 to roll one's own
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to roll one's own
P8. to roll one's own: to make one's own cigarettes by wrapping paper tightly round loose tobacco. Also figurative: to get by without outside assistance. Cf. sense 33 and roll-your-own adj.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > use as material for smoking [verb (transitive)] > make cigarettes
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to roll one's own1900
1900 Internat. Cycl. XIV. 462 The practice is for the smoker to roll his own, rather than to smoke the manufactured article.
1932 J. D. Carr Poison in Jest xi. 157 He produced papers and tobacco... ‘Good American,’ he announced. ‘I roll my own.’
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Roll one's own,..to do things without outside aid.
1941 N.Y. Times 25 July 14/5 ‘Ghosting’ is routine in public papers in the United States, and has been since our history began... Mr. Roosevelt proved again today that he can roll his own whenever he has the time and the inclination.
1960 J. McNamee Florencia Bay 59 Looks sixty. Thin face. Dark. Looks a little Indian but not our kind of Indian. Rolls his own.
2004 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 324/1 Johnny Depp whips out of pouch of Bali Shag tobacco, licks a dark-brown Rizla paper, and starts rolling his own.
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