roly-polies Definition

1. Round and podgy.

1. A strip of suet pastry spread with jam and rolled up, then baked or steamed.

Form: roly-poly pudding (also)
2. colloq
A round podgy person.
3. The children's game of rolling over and over down a hill or grassy slope, etc.
(Austral)
4. Any of several bushy plants, found in arid regions, that break off and roll in the wind.