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round trip orig. U.S.
Also round-trip.
[f. round a. 15.]
a. A circular tour or trip; an outward and return journey.
1860Railroad Guide (Dinsmore & Co.) Sept. 142 Round trip tickets. 1868Putnam's Mag. Mar. 351/1 Time for the round trip..44 hours. 1892Pall Mall G. 4 July 7/2 A stated fare will be charged for the round trip. 1923R. D. Paine Comrades of Rolling Ocean xiii. 223 We signed for the round trip in the Liberty Chimes, but we don't feel like taking her all the way home. 1956People 13 May 9/4 The 30-mile round trip to the lonely isle took seven hours. 1976Scott & Koski Walk-In (1977) iii. 21 ‘Round trip?’ the ticket seller asked... ‘You want to go and come back?’
b. transf. and fig.
1932Amer. Speech VII. 270 Round-trip.., one pull-out and the subsequent run-in of the drill pipe in rotary drilling. 1935Econ. Geol. XXX. 739 Very deep wells may require as much as eight hours to make the ‘round trip’. 1938Amer. Speech XIII. 220/2 Round-trip words, i.e. from O[ld] F[rench] to Eng[lish], thence to French. 1945L. Shelly Jive Talk Dict. 33/1 Round trip, anything unusually good or outstanding. 1963Gloss. Mining Terms (B.S.I.) iii. 12 Round trip, the operation of with⁓drawing the drill rods and bit, etc., from the hole, of extracting core, replacing rods and bit and resuming drilling. 1973N.Y. Law Jrnl. 20 July 5/1 The..Stock Exchange said yesterday it would like to attract small investors back to the stock market with a ‘round trip’ rate.
c. attrib.
1860[see sense a above]. 1890Brighton (Colorado) Reg. 25 Jan. 1/4 The railway company has rehashed its round⁓trip rate, from suburban towns to Denver. 1939G. Greene Another Mexico ii. 31 He had got a round-trip ticket to Mexico City. 1976‘M. Barak’ Secret List H. Roehm v. 58 Enclosed was an Air France round-trip ticket to Montevideo. 1978Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. d21/3 (Advt.), Commodore's unique Fly Free/Cruise Easy program..pays half of the lowest applicable round⁓trip air fare..to Miami.
Hence round-ˈtripper, (a) a traveller who makes a round trip; (b) in Baseball, a home run; a batter who hits a home run; round-ˈtripping Econ., the practice of earning profit by borrowing on overdraft and relending in money markets.
1944D. Burley in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 219 That's why I'm out here..instead of being a round-tripper. 1962P. Purser Peregrination 22 xii. 60 He was a tourist..the only genuine round-tripper in the first-class. 1974Saturday (Charleston, S. Carolina) 20 Apr. 5-b/4 Jeff Grantz..powered four round-trippers in one inning. 1974Daily Tel. 25 May 20/3 Interest arbitrage operations, otherwise known as round tripping. 1977Times 23 Nov. 29/8 It is believed there has been a good deal of ‘round tripping’—borrowing in the money markets to finance purchases of CTDs at a profit. 1978J. A. Michener Chesapeake 649 Home Run Baker..would hit in one year the unheard-of total of twelve round-trippers. 1980Boston Globe 30 Mar. 76 Home runs were circuit clouts. Then they became round trippers, until George Scott renamed them taters. 1980Times 5 Sept. 15/2 It becomes attractive for blue-chip corporate borrowers to take loan from their banks and re-lend the funds to the short⁓term money markets. This is known as ‘round-tripping’. |