Wild Rover

1. A wayward local or traveler given to spending lavishly on alcohol despite not having resources enough to justify the spending. The "wild rover" is often the "life of the bar." The term is especially used in Irish pubs.

2. A staple bar song played in Irish pubs.

3. Originally, a temperance song meant to illustrate the dangers of excessive drinking.

1.
Mike: "Looks like Jim's playing the wild rover tonight."
Joe: "Yea, he's going to be broke and have a terrible hangover in the morning!"

2.
Last Verse:
I'll go home to my parents, confess what I've done
And I'll ask them to pardon their prodigal son
And, when they've caressed me as oft times before
I never will play the wild rover no more

Chorus:
And it's No, Nay, never,
No, nay never no more
Will I play the wild rover,
No never no more

3. Written no earlier than 1829, the song’s nationality is questionable due to the fast rate at which it spread.

by piratejosh December 9, 2008

Going Rover

1. Breaking off of something and going your own way.

2. Doing what your not suppose to do.

3. Doing something your own way instead of the way that your suppose to.

When someone on a basketball team stops doing the set play that the rest of the team is running and starts doing something else.

"I'm a rover coach, I'm just gonna go rover."
-Jackie Moon

Jackie Moon in this part of the movie began to run around in circles in hopes of creating a diversion instead of doing the set play. He was going rover.

by aFrknPuertoRican December 16, 2008

Land Rover

Kickass offroad vehicle, far to often driven by people that dont use it for what it was made for.

Person that doesnt deserve one -- My Rova truck has 22s.

True Owner -- My Rover made it through 30 inches of water and 10 inch deep mud pulling a Jeep out

by jD April 16, 2005

range rover

No, not the SUV that goes by the same name...a range rover is a creature like a cockroach, ant, or rat) that walks, runs, or skitters across a range (loosely defined as an oven with a stovetop).

Marge, get the bugicide because there's a fucking range rover in the kitchen!

by Telephony May 29, 2016

range rover

Status symbol for anglophiles. English variation of SUV. See FUV.

That wanker in the Range Rover drives like he's the King of England.

by nucleus May 26, 2004

Pull A Rover

The classic hang-out to spend an afternoon for my spiffy friends and I. Pulling a Rover entails lunch at Rockridge Cafe (default time is 12:30 unless duly noted), then proceed to Crossroads, a particularly excellent second hand clothes store where I get half my wardrobe. The next activities can range from meeting another friend, taste tasting at the Market Hall, going to a certain friend's house, taking crazy pictures, prank calling random classmates, or awkwardly running into a boy we all know and pretending like we are so chill.

"so we decided to Pull a Rover on Saturday and ran into Collin. Hay caramelos, much? That was awkward. But on the plus side, I got an awesome belt at Crossroads!"

by curlsmcdurls February 5, 2007

Red Rover

Children's game in which two teams are formed, each team links hands with their teammates. Then one team calls out "Red rover, red rover, we call (player's name) over" or something like that to the other team. Then the person's name that's called tries to break through the chain the other team made. If they failed to break through then the team gains control of the player. If they suceeded then the payer get to pick which side he/she wants to join, that side also gets the part of the chain that got broken off. Then it goes back in forth. Was popular in 1970's.

"Hey, wanna play Red Rover after school today?"
"If there's enough players."

by PeopleAwardsDropout August 20, 2009