Definitions for rightabout

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rightabout right·a·bout

Spelling: [rahyt-uh-bout]

IPA: /ˈraɪt əˌbaʊt/

Rightabout is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 503 anagrams from letters in rightabout (abghiorttu).

Definitions for rightabout

noun

1. the position assumed by turning about to the right so as to face in the opposite direction.
2. the act of turning so as to face the opposite direction.

adverb

1. facing or in the opposite direction:

Origin of rightabout

First recorded in 1690-1700; right + about

Examples for rightabout

Nana announced that if he were to ask her to take another part she would jolly well send him to the rightabout.

Now and then a wolf would approach, or a puma, or ocelot; but a shout would send them to the rightabout.

Ah, but it is so, or else people would be sent to the rightabout at the second sentence.

And as she spoke Naomi looked up, and sent her manager to the rightabout with a single stare of contempt and defiance.

I think we have got something to send them to the rightabout, if our shouts fail to drive them away.

“My horse-whip will soon send them to the rightabout, should any of them venture to come near me,” he answered laughing.

No sooner does a man feel his own life and strength swellin' up in him than rightabout he wants to kill things.

And before I could have thought it possible, he had turned the carriage to the rightabout and we were galloping south.

I sent him to the rightabout pretty quickly, I can tell you.

After this, the corporal touched his hat, swung round to the rightabout in military style, and left the cabin.