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Definition of roulette
1a : a gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest inb : something involving a high degree of chance and unpredictability
2a : any of various toothed wheels or disks (as for producing rows of dots on engraved plates or for making short consecutive incisions in paper to facilitate subsequent division)b : tiny slits between rows of stamps in a sheet that are made by a roulette and serve as an aid in separation — compare perforation
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Revolving door: The game of roster roulette continued with more shuffling of the pitching staff, and by all indications that trend will continue.
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As part of that conversion, the ship's cavernous concert hall -- the location of so many New Orleans memories -- was outfitted with roulette, blackjack and poker tables, as well as slot machines.
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A deadly roulette wheel was spinning in Steve Shearer’s mind.
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The death was ruled a suicide, but it was rumored that the young man and Ms. Pallenberg had been playing Russian roulette.
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The last time Elvis Costello played Charlotte was 2012, in the revival of his Spectacular Spinning Songbook Tour, in which audience members determined much of the setlist by chance, spinning a giant roulette wheel of 150 Costello songs.
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Both Richards and Ms. Pallenberg were known to stray, and in 1979 a 17-year-old boy killed himself in Ms. Pallenberg’s company, possibly while playing Russian roulette.
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For the bold and daring, marbling your hair is a lot like playing hair dye roulette.
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Other games will include blackjack, craps and roulette.
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Origin and Etymology of roulette
French, literally, small wheel, from Old French roelete, diminutive of roele wheel, rowel, from Late Latin rotella, diminutive of Latin rota wheel — more at roll
roulette
Definition of roulette
rouletted
;rouletting
transitive verb
: to make roulettes in
First Known Use of roulette
1867
ROULETTE Defined for English Language Learners
roulette
playDefinition of roulette for English Language Learners
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: a game in which a small ball is dropped onto a numbered wheel that is spinning and players bet on which numbered section the ball will rest in
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See words that rhyme with roulette Spanish Central: Translation of roulette Nglish: Translation of roulette for Spanish speakers Britannica.com: Encyclopedia article about roulette
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