English-Italian translations for roulette

• roulette
  Ha mai provato a giocare alla roulette russa? Have you ever played Russian roulette?
  Non si tratta affatto di una roulette russa, on. Breyer. It is not a question of Russian roulette, Mrs Breyer.
  L'uso dei profilattici è stato paragonato al gioco della roulette russa. The use of condoms has been compared to playing Russian roulette.
• rulletta

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