holy roller

1. 1.

   a member of a religion that expresses ecstatic fervor

   Broaderchurchgoer

Questions about holy roller

What does holy roller mean?

holy roller means "a member of a religion that expresses ecstatic fervor".

Is holy roller a common word?

holy roller is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.