English-Finnish translations for roulette

• ruletti
  Heidän pitäisi heti lakata käyttäytymästä kuin messiaat, jotka muka pelastavat unionin talouden, kun he kuitenkin samalla pelaavat rulettia markkinoiden vapaudella ja veronmaksajien rahoilla. Right now they should stop acting as Messiahs who will save the Union's economy, while playing roulette with market freedom and taxpayers' money.
  Kasinolla pelattiin rulettia ja korttipelejä.
• vierintäkäyrä

Definition of roulette

• A game of chance, in which a small ball is made to move round rapidly on a circle divided off into numbered red and black spaces, the one on which it stops indicating the result of a variety of wagers permitted by the game
• A similar wheel used to roughen the surface of a plate, as in making alterations in a mezzotint
• Any of the small incisions on a sheet of stamps, used as an alternative to perforations
• To separate or decorate by incisions made with a small toothed wheel

Examples

• to roulette a sheet of postage stamps

Related words

• roulette wheel
• Russian roulette
• perforation roulette