Definitions for roulette

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roulette rou·lette

Spelling: [roo-let]

IPA: /ruˈlɛt/

Roulette is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 151 anagrams from letters in roulette (eelorttu).

Definitions for roulette

noun

1. a game of chance played at a table marked off with numbers from 1 to 36, one or two zeros, and several other sections affording the players a variety of betting opportunities, and having in the center a revolving, dishlike device (roulette wheel) into which a small ball is spun to come to rest finally in one of the 37 or 38 compartments, indicating the winning number and its characteristics, as odd or even, red or black, and between 1 and 18 or 19 and 36.
2. a small wheel, especially one with sharp teeth, mounted in a handle, for making lines of marks, dots, or perforations:
3. Philately. a row of short cuts, in which no paper is removed, made between individual stamps to permit their ready separation.

verb (used with object)

1. to mark, impress, or perforate with a roulette.

Origin of roulette

1725-35; French, diminutive of rouelle wheel. See rowel

Examples for roulette

The best thing he did of that kind was the roulette story at Paris.

And did the old Romans really play at roulette, and was that one of their tables?

For those patients, getting treated at Rose was like inadvertently playing a game of Russian roulette.

In the casino a crowd is gathering round the roulette wheel.

After finding Manning guilty of six counts of spying under the Espionage Act, however, America may be playing Russian roulette.

It shows that the Malaysian airliner may well have fallen victim to a high-altitude game of Russian roulette.

That was the kind of roulette wheel a man might really take an interest in!

“It is like Russian roulette to use these drugs,” he told WebMd in 2010.

He also ran roulette Records and golfed on occasion with Sammy Davis, Jr.

There was also a roulette wheel, which didn't hurt the looks of the place either.