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roulettelike

roulettelike adjective: resembling or characteristic of the gambling game of roulette.

Adjective

roulettelike (comparative more roulettelike, superlative most roulettelike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of the gambling game of roulette.
    • Indeed, there had always been a roulettelike aspect to the island's sugar business; decline and distress were evident even in the earliest records...1992, Thomas Cleveland Holt, The problem of freedom
    • Contestants spin a roulettelike wheel that determines how much money they can win (or, sometimes, lose) on a particular turn.2001, Ted Koppel, Off Camera: Private Thoughts Made Public

Forms of roulettelike

comparativemore roulettelike
superlativemost roulettelike

Origin of roulettelike

From roulette + -like.

Questions about roulettelike

What does roulettelike mean?
Roulettelike means resembling or characteristic of the gambling game of roulette.
What part of speech is roulettelike?
Roulettelike is an adjective.

Words near roulettelike in the dictionary

  1. roules
  2. roulette
  3. roulette wheel
  4. roulette wheels
  5. rouletted
  6. roulettelike
  7. roulettes
  8. rouletting
  9. rouleur
  10. rouleurs
  11. Roulhac

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