Usually means: Immediate, complete turn in direction.
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  1. rightabout: Wordnik
  2. rightabout: Wiktionary
  3. rightabout: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  4. rightabout: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of right-about [A 180-degree turn towards the right (especially of troops)]

Similar:
turnround, turn-around, right-face, about face, rightie, right-back, U-turn, bookright, whiparound, round-trip, more...

Opposite:
leftabout, counterclockwise, anticlockwise

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Similar:
turnround, turn-around, right-face, about face, rightie, right-back, U-turn, bookright, whiparound, round-trip, more...

Opposite:
leftabout, counterclockwise, anticlockwise



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