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rolling stone

noun

  1. person who is unwilling to settle for long in one place
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From the proverb a rolling stone gathers no moss.

  1. A person who moves around a lot and never settles down; a vagrant.

    Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job.

    I'm sorry; I'm a bit of a rolling stone, I suppose. When Darrish came back to Netherhempsfield my job was done there. I felt uncommonly restless.

  2. A womanizer.

    Papa was a rolling stone Wherever he laid his hat was his home And when he died, all he left us was a loan

  3. A geological phenomenon where rocks move and inscribe long tracks along a smooth valley floor without animal or human intervention.
  4. A meteoroid.