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rolling stone

noun

Etymology

From the proverb a rolling stone gathers no moss.

Definitions

  1. A person who moves around a lot and never settles down

    A person who moves around a lot and never settles down; a vagrant.

    • Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job.
    • I'm sorry; I'm a bit of a rolling stone, I suppose. When Darrish came back to Netherhempsfield my job was done there. I felt uncommonly restless.
    • How does it feel To be on your own With no direction home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone?

  2. A womanizer.

    • Papa was a rolling stone Wherever he laid his hat was his home And when he died, all he left us was a loan

  3. A geological phenomenon where rocks move and inscribe long tracks along a smooth valley…

    A geological phenomenon where rocks move and inscribe long tracks along a smooth valley floor without animal or human intervention.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A meteoroid.

    2. Any of the members of the Rolling Stones.

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