Rolling Stone
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Any of the members of the Rolling Stones.
rolling stone
nounalso spelled Rolling StoneEtymology From the proverb a rolling stone gathers no moss.
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Idiomatic 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.1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá:
- 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.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:
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- How does it feel To be on your own With no direction home Like a complete unknown Like a rolling stone?1965, Bob Dylan, “Like a Rolling Stone”, in Highway 61 Revisited:
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Slang 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 loan1972, Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield, “Papa Was a Rollin' Stone”:
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Astronomy, Natural sciences A meteoroid.
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- a rolling stone gathers no moss