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Holy Roller

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Holy Roller
n. Offensive
Used as a disparaging term for a member of any of various religious denominations in which spiritual fervor is expressed by shouts and violent body movements.

Holy Roller
n
(Christian Religious Writings / Theology) Derogatory a member of a sect that expresses religious fervour in an ecstatic or frenzied way
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Noun1.Holy Roller - a member of a religion that expresses ecstatic fervor
church member, churchgoer - a religious person who goes to church regularly


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``That's a crock,'' said Dan Fouts, the former Chargers quarterback who knows a crock when he sees it, having witnessed the Holy Roller in 1978, when Ken Stabler -- about to be sacked on the final play -- fumbled the ball forward to Pete Banaszak, who knocked it forward to Dave Casper, who knocked it forward into the end zone where he fell on it to give the Raiders a 21-20victory.
Schools named after saints and other holy rollers make for great headlines on the sports page.
To quote from the review in hardcover in KLIATT, July 2002: Teri, a high school freshman in a small town in northern California, thinks of herself as "a Nobody" At home, she is overshadowed by her beautiful divorced mother and older sister, both of whom live for the men in their lives; at school, she is neither a Rowdy nor a Holy Roller, the two main cliques, and her crushes on boys seem to be unreciprocated.
 
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