See also: roll-up and roll up

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Deverbal from roll up.

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rollup (plural rollups)

  1. A kind of food made by wrapping ingredients in another food, e.g. fajitas.
    Synonym: roll
    She ate a chicken rollup and a salad.
    • 2009, Jonathan Bryan, Questings: A Parable, page 50:
      He considered moving to the dining room, but ordered a fourth vodka martini and sent it down in three gulps to join a half-dozen bacon rollups and two baked cheese appetizers.
  2. A kind of flat, pectin-based, fruit-flavored snack rolled into a tube.
  3. A self-made cigarette of tobacco and rolling paper.
    Synonym: rollie
    I smoke rollups because they are cheaper than buying cigarettes.
  4. A business technique where multiple small companies in the same market are acquired and merged.
    • 2013, Annette Risberg, Mergers & Acquisitions: A Critical Reader:
      In geographic rollups, it's more important to hold on to key employees — and customers — than to realize efficiencies quickly.
  5. (computing) A collection of software updates distributed as a single package.
    • 2014, Michel de Rooij, Jaap Wesselius, Pro Exchange 2013 SP1 PowerShell Administration:
      Between issuance of service packs, Microsoft released update rollups for Exchange Server on a regular basis []
  6. That which is rolled up; a summation; an aggregation; a total.
    • 2013, Simon Lidberg, Getting Started with SQL Server 2012 Cube Development:
      In some cases, you may want to add custom rollups that change the way a measure is calculated on a specific level.

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