roulette
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishGamblingrouletterou‧lette /ruːˈlet/ noun [uncountable]
DGGa game in which a small ball is spun around on a moving wheel, and people try to win money by guessing which hole the ball will fall intoExamples from the Corpusroulette• Half our people starving and the other half standing around a roulette wheel.• Then I sit at a roulette table.• Last week they played a new noise that was obviously the sound of a ball dropping into a roulette wheel.• The effect is rather like the behavior of a roulette ball on a roulette wheel.• Phone calls have become roulette or bingo games.• I hadn't discovered roulette then.• He also spent his evenings at the roulette wheels of Monte Carlo, squandering extravagant sums.• The roulette wheels were sunk in circular pits.Origin roulette (1700-1800) French Old French roele “small wheel”, from Latin rota; → ROTATE
DGGa game in which a small ball is spun around on a moving wheel, and people try to win money by guessing which hole the ball will fall intoExamples from the Corpusroulette• Half our people starving and the other half standing around a roulette wheel.• Then I sit at a roulette table.• Last week they played a new noise that was obviously the sound of a ball dropping into a roulette wheel.• The effect is rather like the behavior of a roulette ball on a roulette wheel.• Phone calls have become roulette or bingo games.• I hadn't discovered roulette then.• He also spent his evenings at the roulette wheels of Monte Carlo, squandering extravagant sums.• The roulette wheels were sunk in circular pits.Origin roulette (1700-1800) French Old French roele “small wheel”, from Latin rota; → ROTATE