steamroller
Noun
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Noun
steamroller (plural steamrollers)
- a steam-powered heavy road roller
- (informal) Any heavy road roller
- (by extension) any seemingly irresistible force
- a pipe, used for smoking cannabis, open at both ends and having a bowl near one end; it rolls the smoke (steam)
- French: compacteur
- German: Dampfwalze
- Italian: rullo compressore
- Spanish: apisonadora
steamroller (steamrollers, present participle steamrollering; past and past participle steamrollered)
- to level a road using a steamroller
- to proceed ruthlessly against all opposition as if with an overwhelming force; to overpower
- to steamroll
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