Definition of "roulette" []

• A gambling game in which the players bet on which slot of a rotating disk a small ball will come to rest in. (noun)
• A small toothed disk of tempered steel attached to a handle and used to make rows of dots, slits, or perforations, as in engraving or on a sheet of postage stamps. (noun)
• Any of the short consecutive incisions made between individual stamps in a sheet for easy separation. (noun)
• To mark or divide with a roulette. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Marlin roulette is a game that many fantasy owners will play eagerly this year, as this team should be the sexy pick to make a run."
• "A game of regulatory roulette is renewing scrutiny of money-market mutual funds and could drive further consolidation in the $2.8 trillion industry."
• "Worse, Lilly was caught playing off label roulette with Zyprexa; marketing it for any condition that would stick to the wall instead of the schizophrenia and bipolar disorder for which it was approved."