Definitions for roulettes

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roulettes rou·lette

Spelling: [roo-let]

IPA: /ruˈlɛt/

Roulettes is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 381 anagrams from letters in roulettes (eelorsttu).

Definitions for roulettes

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 roulettes

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

Examples for roulettes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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