Definitions
a gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest in
Word origin
Borrowed from French roulette (“roulette, little wheel”). The sense "situation with a random chance of incurring serious harm" may be abstracted from Russian roulette.
Used in a sentence
“Doctors and health officials said that the WRC-TV documentary, "DPT: Vaccine Roulette," emphasized the risks of the vaccine while ignoring the dangers of the disease, which has been almost wiped out in this country.”
“They would all rather take their chances with the existing policy-making roulette rather than follow process discipline.”
“By contrast giving treatments open-label slows everything down by leading us up blind alleys while playing roulette with our patients' lives.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Casino wheel game”8 letters
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