Definitions for roundabout

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roundabout round·a·bout

Spelling: [adjective round-uh-bout, round- Roundabout is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 436 anagrams from letters in roundabout (abdnoortuu).

Definitions for roundabout

noun

1. a short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.
2. British. a merry-go-round.
3. a circuitous or indirect road, method, etc.
4. Chiefly British. traffic circle.

adjective

1. circuitous or indirect, as a road, journey, method, statement or person.
2. (of clothing) cut circularly at the bottom; having no tails, train, or the like.

Origin of roundabout

1525-35; round¹ (adv.) + about

Examples for roundabout

As rebel cars circled a roundabout, Shabiha gunmen opened fire.

Before the night was out, however, I had gone to work in a roundabout way.

I have no idea what's next," said activist Nadine Wahab, as she stood in the roundabout, called the "medan.

The war had a direct impact on M.I.A. becoming a recording artist, though in a bit of a roundabout way.

It would be an awfully complicated and roundabout way of garnering Heisman goodwill.

Then by a roundabout route they started on their return to the car.

But in a roundabout way I did get some news as to what happened.

This is ingenious, but her proof, after that, is (as she candidly admits) "clumsy and roundabout."

What need of this roundabout, mysterious mode of communicating?

Back he went, and he got shot in the stomach and rushed to nearby Salmaniya Hospital, closest to the roundabout.