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▸ noun: (uncountable, figuratively) An instance of risk-taking, especially when the downside exceeds the upside (contrary to the game of roulette where only the wager is lost).
▸ noun: (countable) A small toothed wheel used by engravers to roll over a plate in order to produce rows of dots.
▸ noun: (countable) A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint.
▸ noun: (countable, geometry) The locus of a point on a plane curve that rolls without slipping along another fixed plane curve.
▸ noun: (philately) Any of the small incisions on a sheet of stamps, used as an alternative to perforations.
▸ noun: A cylindrical curler for the hair.
▸ verb: To separate or decorate by incisions made with a small toothed wheel.
Similar:
line roulette,
toothed wheel,
rondo,
coup,
raffle,
game of chance,
rollerball,
lotto,
round robin,
keno,
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russian,
american,
genetic,
ecological,
blackjack,
cosmic,
european,
nuclear,
molecular,
chinese,
sexual
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