Definition of roulette
(Entry 1 of 2)
1a : a gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest in
b : 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
roulette
verbrouletted; rouletting
Definition of roulette (Entry 2 of 2)
: to make roulettes in
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The first known use of roulette was in 1744
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