Usually means: Casino game based on luck.
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  1. roulette: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. roulette: Merriam-Webster
  3. roulette: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. roulette: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. roulette: Collins English Dictionary
  6. roulette: Vocabulary.com
  7. roulette: Wordnik
  8. roulette: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. roulette: Wiktionary
  10. roulette: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. roulette: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. roulette: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Roulette, roulette: Dictionary.com
  14. roulette: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Roulette (DC Comics), Roulette (Katy Perry song), Roulette (Marvel Comics), Roulette (album), Roulette (band), Roulette (comics), Roulette (curve), Roulette (disambiguation), Roulette (instrumental), Roulette: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Roulette: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. roulette: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. roulette: Rhymezone
  19. roulette, roulette, roulette, roulette (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. roulette: FreeDictionary.org
  21. roulette: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. roulette: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

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  1. roulette: Encyclopedia

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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. roulette: Idioms

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  1. Roulette: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

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  1. roulette: Urban Dictionary

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  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See rouletted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (uncountable) A game of chance in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered (usually red and black) spaces. When the ball stops, it indicates the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game.
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.

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