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View synonyms for roundup

roundup

[ round-uhp ]

noun

  1. the driving together of cattle, horses, etc., for inspection, branding, shipping to market, or the like, as in the western U.S.
  2. the people and horses who do this.
  3. the herd so collected.
  4. the gathering together of scattered items or groups of people:

    a police roundup of suspects.

  5. a summary, brief listing, or résumé of related facts, figures, or information:

    Sunday's newspaper has a sports roundup giving the final score of every baseball game of the past week.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of roundup1

First recorded in 1760–70; noun use of verb phrase round up
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Idioms and Phrases

see head for (the last roundup) . Also see round up .
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Example Sentences

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What was supposed to be a cattle roundup looked more like a military exercise.

Here, a roundup of the best responses from cops who are down with getting high.

(Such seeds were of course from Roundup Ready plants, since they had survived the spraying of Roundup).

There are some unweaned calves, and a few unbranded yearlings that will just about pay the cost of their roundup.

So Blink, though he was counted a good man on roundup, was left pretty much alone when in camp.

The "rough string," as the bad horses were called, was corralled, and the men made merry with the roundup crew.

On this roundup, however, he was not often amiable and he was nearly always rumbling to himself.

For the second time the Flying U roundup was brought to an involuntary pause because of its cook.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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