steamroller
noun
Meaning
- A steam-powered heavy road roller
- 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)
- To level a road using a steamroller
- To proceed ruthlessly against all opposition as if with an overwhelming force; to overpower
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