English-French translations for russian roulette

• roulette russe
  Il n'y aura pas de roulette russe, Mme Breyer. It is not a question of Russian roulette, Mrs Breyer.
  L'utilisation des préservatifs a été comparée au jeu de la roulette russe. The use of condoms has been compared to playing Russian roulette.
  À l' époque, nous n' étions pas parvenus à préserver les travailleurs frontaliers de la roulette russe. We were unable to halt the Russian roulette for frontier workers at the time.

Definition of russian roulette

• A deadly game in which a person loads a single bullet in the cylinder of a revolver, spins the cylinder so that the bullet's location is unknown, points the muzzle at his/her head, and pulls the trigger. In its most lethal form, played by multiple participants each of whom takes a turn until the weapon discharges

Related words

• Russian
• Belorussian
• Prussian
• Belarussian
• Russianness
• all-Russian
• Byelorussian
• Russian-Canadian
• Russianize
• Prussianism