Rollups

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A type of small, rolled tobacco product typically consumed by hand, often resembling a cigarette but made of loose tobacco
2. A snack food item that consists of various fillings wrapped in a dough or tortilla, typically served as finger food
3. A bundled collection of information or documentation that is organized in a concise, rolled format for easy handling and presentation

Etymology: "Rollups" is the plural of "rollup", a noun formed from the phrasal verb "roll up" and used for cigarettes that smokers make themselves by rolling loose tobacco in paper. The noun is a deverbal formation: it was built from the verb after the verb had already been in use, so the sense of rolling something tight into a cylinder carries straight through into the product's name. The word's core meaning is literal. To roll up is to wind something flat, such as paper, cloth or a carpet, into a tube, and a rollup is the tube-shaped object that results. Applied to tobacco, the same idea describes a home-made cigarette where the smoker wraps loose tobacco in a thin paper and seals it by licking the edge, a practice that became common in the modern era as an alternative to factory-made cigarettes.

Synonyms: wraps, bundles