What is the meaning of ROOF. Phrases containing ROOF
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Caught in close clearance
FLYER WITH THE ROOF SLIGHTLY HIGHER
Flyer with the roof slightly higher is Black−American slang for a modified version of a ten gallon hat.
Roofies is slang for valium.
Mallet-type locomotive or any helper engine on a mountain job. Sometimes called sacred ox
A person that is ill at ease or uncomfortable, like a cat enduring the discomfort of walking on a hot tin roof on a sunny summer day. Name of a famous Tennessee William's play.
To drink a lot, to be drunk
n Idioms: go through the roof 1. To grow, intensify, or rise to an enormous, often unexpected degree: Operating costs went through the roof last year. 2. To become extremely angry: When I told her about breaking the window, she went through the roof. raise the roof 1. To be extremely noisy and boisterous: They raised the roof at the party. 2. To complain loudly and bitterly: Angry tenants finally raised the roof about their noisy neighbors.
A person that is ill at ease or uncomfortable, like a cat enduring the discomfort of walking on a hot tin roof on a sunny summer day. Name of a famous Tennessee William's play.
Rohypnol (generic name flunitrazepam) causes loss of memory and is also known as the 'date rape’ drug. Class C drug which will ONLY be available on prescription after 1/5/98 when it also becomes a Schedule 3 drug under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 1985
In Australia, when we were kids, and most people had tin/iron roofs, we used to throw a rock on the roof, and run like hell!! Used to make a helluva noise, especially on a clear night. It was worse if you were inside the house...a good throw meant the rock would clatter down the roof, until it reached the gutter, or fell over the edge. (ed: Submitted by 'Granny' in BP Userforum - thanks Granny)
n A tablet of the sedative flunitrazepam. [Probably alteration of Rohypnol.]
Whenever friends and I would be on the phone with each other, and someone would walk in the room that was the subject of what we are talking about, or otherwise would prevent us from saying what we wanted, we would say "the cat's on the roof" (since cats do that a lot around here) to signal that we couldn't respond without being busted. Unfortunatly, the saying spread around so much that everyone knew what it meant, and we had to stop using it. Its been a while, so now we can again. (ed: not sany more!!)
Roof is slang for a hat.Roof is British slang for the head.
to be overworked and stressed, as in “I was flat roofin for my GCSEsâ€. Probably comes from flat out.
growing cannabis (not necessarily on a roof)
Roofs is slang for valium.
Roofers is slang for valium.
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n.
A small roof, covering, or shelter.
n.
One who puts on roofs.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Roof
n.
The ornament of woodwork upon the gable of a house, used extensively in the 15th century. It was generally suspended from the edge of the projecting roof (see Verge, n., 4), and in position parallel to the gable wall. Called also bargeboard.
n.
The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering.
n.
The act of covering with a roof.
a.
Having a hip roof.
n.
The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
imp. & p. p.
of Roof
v. t.
To cover with a roof.
n.
The materials of which a roof is composed; materials for a roof.
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Having a roof, or top, shaped like an inverted U; wagon-headed.
n.
That which resembles, or corresponds to, the covering or the ceiling of a house; as, the roof of a cavern; the roof of the mouth.
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Having roofs.
n.
The beam in the angle of a roof; hence, the roof itself.
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Hence, the roof itself; figuratively, shelter.
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An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia.
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Having no roof; as, a roofless house.
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