Roulette definition is - a gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest in. Roulette synonyms. Top synonyms for roulette (other words for roulette) are game of chance, toothed wheel and craps - Page 3. Synonyms for 'play Russian roulette with something': risk, dare, jeopardize, chance, gamble, hazard, throw/cast caution to the wind(s).

How to use roulette in a sentence?

1. Justice Antonin Scalia:

   We're just old-fashioned Catholics, playing what used to be known as 'Vatican Roulette,'.

2. Andy Purvis:

   Until and unless we can bring biodiversity back up, we're playing ecological roulette.

3. Danielle Foltz:

   When your infant's body is being racked by 40 seizures every single day, you do not have three business days to play Russian roulette, waiting for a medication that could stop his seizures and right your world again.

4. John Faulkner:

   Even if you do all that you can do, theres still a possibility that you can be infected with this, if youre not practicing, following the guidelines from the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention], then were basically playing Russian roulette with our health and our lives and the lives of our friends and families.

5. Jerry Taylor:

   In every other context where you have this degree of risk and uncertainty we rightly hedge, we rightly address the full range of possible outcomes, to not do so in the climate arena when you have this much at stake is incredible to me... Do we really want to go to Vegas and put all our money on one roulette wheel and say,' Well, that's the most possible outcome ?'.

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Synonyms for roulette

a line generated by a point on one figure rolling around a second figure

a wheel with teeth for making a row of perforations

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