Etymology
Origin of rightabout
Example Sentences
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The enemy also has radios; he might suborn the brainless invader into a rightabout turn.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nana announced that if he were to ask her to take another part she would jolly well send him to the rightabout.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile
The quantity of young officers I have seen sent rightabout in the Peninsula, because they were attended by a parcel of men who knew nothing of their constitution!
From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
I admit his superior knowledge of spiritual matters, but I think I know what politics suit me best, and I send him to the rightabout.
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John
He took active charge of the bills and financial affairs, he commanded Azuba to do this and that, he saw the callers who came and he sent them to the rightabout in a hurry.
From Cap'n Dan's Daughter by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
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