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switcharoo

switcharoo is the alternative form of switcheroo.

Meaning of switcheroo

Noun

switcheroo (plural switcheroos)

  1. (Canada, US, informal) A sneaky, unexpected, or clever swap or exchange.
    • In a corporate merger, it is usually the big company that buys a smaller one. Last week Boston's up & coming Tracerlab, Inc. pulled a switcheroo. Tracerlab, which grossed only $1,700,000 last year, bought the much bigger ($8,000,000 gross) Kelley-Koett Mfg. Co.1951 April 30, “Business & Finance: Switcheroo”, in Time, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2012

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Forms of switcharoo

pluralswitcharoos

Questions about switcharoo

What is switcharoo the alternative form of?
Switcharoo is the alternative form of switcheroo.

Words near switcharoo in the dictionary

  1. switch-hitting
  2. switch-plant
  3. switcha
  4. switchability
  5. switchable
  6. switcharoo
  7. switcharoos
  8. switcharound
  9. switcharounds
  10. switchback
  11. switchbacked

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Adapted from Wiktionary: switcharoo (page history and authors); switcheroo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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