A member of an evangelical Christian group which expresses religious fervour by frenzied excitement or trances.
‘holy rollers writhing on the floor’
‘Their programs are widely regarded within the community, but it isn't a place where the holy rollers and people who expect an old fashioned Babtist ceremony would go.’
‘Let's face it, we are constantly hearing from the holy rollers with their reassuring message that miracles do happen.’
‘I'm not condemning her for that at all, but I just have to explain that that is why I quit being such a holy roller.’
‘He can work himself into a holy roller's lather on his motivational tapes, but in person he's reassuringly low-key, with an undercurrent of no-nonsense intensity.’
‘At his party conferences, he's appeared sometimes like a kind of holy roller figure, sometimes like a rather earnest vicar.’
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