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
They put them speedily to the rightabout, and rode over many in their turn.
From Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut by Eugene Mason
“That’ll start ’em to the rightabout double quick.”
From A Frontier Mystery by Bertram Mitford
"But," I said, "they cannot all be such fools, for with my own eyes I saw them send the regular soldiers to the rightabout."
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
“I think we have got something to send them to the rightabout, if our shouts fail to drive them away.”
From Adventures in Africa By an African Trader by William Henry Giles Kingston
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