roulette• Half our people starving and the other half standing around a roulette wheel.• Then I sit at a roulettetable.• 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 discoveredroulette then.• He also spent his evenings at the roulette wheels of Monte Carlo, squanderingextravagantsums.• The roulette wheels were sunk in circularpits.
Originroulette
(1700-1800)FrenchOld Frenchroele“small wheel”, from Latinrota; → ROTATE