- roll‧er [countable]
- 1
a piece of equipment consisting of a tube-shaped piece of wood, metal etc that rolls over and over, used for painting, crushing, making things smoother etc : a paint roller
a garden roller
- ➔ steamroller1 (1)
- 2 [usually plural]
a tube-shaped piece of metal or wood, used for moving heavy things that have no wheels : The boats are taken down to the sea on rollers.
- 3
a small plastic or metal tube used for making hair curl [= curler] - 4
a long powerful wave : great Atlantic rollers
- chim‧ney [countable]
- 1
a vertical pipe that allows smoke from a fire to pass out of a building up into the air, or the part of this pipe that is above the roof : We can't light a fire because the chimney hasn't been swept.
- 2
a tall vertical structure containing a chimney [↪ smokestack]: a factory chimney
- 3 technical
a narrow opening in tall rocks or cliffs that you can climb up - 4
smoke like a chimney
if someone smokes like a chimney, they smoke a lot of cigarettes or tobacco - used humorously
life vest [countable]
American English a life jacket
- tooth‧paste [uncountable]
- a thick substance that you use to clean your teeth
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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