Wiktionary
n. (context gambling English) a slotted wheel, that rotates horizontally; on which players bet on which slot the ball will stop in.
WordNet
n. game equipment consisting of a rotating wheel with slots that is used for gambling; players bet on which slot the roulette ball will stop in [syn: wheel]
Usage examples of "roulette wheel".
It might once have signified no more than a roulette wheel or some such device.
It's like the ball's bouncing around crazy in the Roulette wheel, and it might not even fall into a slot but fly right out onto the floor.
And the noise--the piano, the spinning of the roulette wheel, the shrill laughter and coarse talk--had to be unsettling to someone accustomed to the whisper of the wind and the cry of the loon.
He took two lumbering steps, grasped hold of the gigantic roulette wheel, and heaved.
The pale white face of DeLong among them was like a specter, as he stood staring blankly about, and still, insanely, twisting the roulette wheel before him.
He turned to the rail, pointed it down at the first roulette wheel below and got to work.
She watched the roulette wheel go round and round, finally stopping on her number, twenty-three.
Ma'am, I can't allow that bet without the pit boss' OK, the roulette wheel's minder said.
She had changed the quarters - $18 in all -into bills at the hotel desk, and now, feeling like a visitor inside her own body, she approached the roulette wheel and held these bills out to the croupier with a hand entirely void of feeling.
I ripped the roulette wheel loose and mowed down a whole row of them with it, and I throwed a billiard table through the mirror behind the bar just for good measure.