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1. Short and plump
   "You're a roly-poly man";
   - dumpy, podgy [Brit], pudgy, tubby

1. A rotund individual
   - fatso, fatty, fat person, butterball [N. Amer]
    
2. [Brit] Pudding made of suet pastry spread with jam or fruit and rolled up and baked or steamed
   - roly-poly pudding [Brit]

Derived forms: roly-polies

See also: fat

Type of: large person, pudding [N. Amer]

Encyclopedia: Roly-poly