WordNet
adj. folded in on itself to form a roll; "the edges of the handkerchief were rolled and whipped"; "jeans with rolled-up legs"; "swatted the fly with a rolled newspaper" [syn: rolled, rolled-up(a)]
Usage examples of "rolled-up".
But when Donal reached in to put his hand on the form's shoulder, it closed only on the soft material of a rolled-up battle jacket.
Hannibal the German Shepherd saw one thing and one thing only: the rolled-up newspaper which fell from Cary Ripton's hand as the shotgun blast pushed him off his bicycle seat and out of his life.
The inner layer was lined by carbon nanotubes only a nanometer wide, rolled-up sheets of graphite with a tensile strength greater than steel.
What a shock when Casteinuovo had offered her the rolled-up cigarette paper with a magnifying glass!
He was wearing his helmet and flak jacket and had the rolled-up hammock strapped to his cartridge belt.
It was not eaten with a utensil but with a rolled-up flour tortilla that you used as a kind of scoop.
He recovered himself enough to take the flower arrangement and rolled-up flimsy Pym handed out to him with, he hoped, a tolerably bland expression.
Harris said something inaudible to the seaman next to him who edged along the bulwark and pulled out a rolled-up hammock cloth.
As the first edge of sun peeped around the shadow of night, Harpster pulled from his pack two rolled-up hats with gigantic brims.
Her open trunk lay in the hall and lacrosse sticks, tapes, posters, rolled-up art work, wet towels, coloured files, a teddy bear and a squashy bag, overflowing with underwear, were scattered in a trail all the way to the kitchen.
Diego de Landa burned thousands of Maya codices, story paintings and hieroglyphs inscribed on rolled-up deer skins.
It is the soft thup of a thick wrestler's loogie being propelled through a rolled-up tongue.
Tong, notary public, of Kowloon, was probably operating out of a rolled-up newspaper.
The room had the clutter you would expect: a soft-looking sofa big enough for three, occasional tables littered with magazines and rolled-up softscreens.
When they reached Swift Enterprises, he took a rolled-up sea chart out of one of his suitcases and spread it on Tom's desk.