Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Roller n.

[abbr.]

1. a Rolls Royce car; also attrib.

[US]Ian Dury ‘My Old Man’ 🎵 Later on he drove a Roller, chaufferin’ for foreign men.
[UK]‘Derek Raymond’ He Died with His Eyes Open 54: Three Rollers e’s got on the strength, three Mercs an a couple of bran-new four-door BMWs.
[Aus]C. Bowles G’DAY 92: The big bikkies is divided into old money and new money. Poseesors of both types drive Rollers.
[UK]S. Armitage ‘The Two of Us’ in Dead Sea Poems 33: You’ve got the lot, the full set: / chopper, Roller, horse-drawn carriage.
[UK]Indep. Rev. 21 Feb. 4: John did have his own self-indulgencies, like his Rolls, but he turned it into a joke, painting it in psychodelic colours, as if taking the piss out of Roller owners.

2. see Holy Roller n. (1)