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log⋅roll

[lawg-rohl, log-] U.S. Politics.
–verb (used with object)
1. to procure the passage of (a bill) by logrolling.
–verb (used without object)
2. to engage in political logrolling.

Origin:
1825–35, Americanism; back formation from logrolling


logroller, noun
log·roll   (lôg'rōl', lŏg'-)   
v.   log·rolled, log·roll·ing, log·rolls

v.   tr.
To work toward the passage of (legislation) by logrolling.
v.   intr.
  1. To engage in political logrolling.
  2. To birl.
log'roll'er n.

Logroll

Log"roll`\, v. i. & t. To engage in logrolling; to accomplish by logrolling. [Political cant, U. S.]
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