Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

last roundup

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.29 in modern English

Syllables: last roundup
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

1

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A final gathering of people or items; the final event in a series of events involving a group or organization.

American usage

noun

American usage

Example Sentences

"It's last roundup time, my fellow grocery patrons. On Saturday, the receipt redemption programs operated by Giant Food and Safeway ended after a 5 1/2-month run."
"[B]y the 1964-65 season, the number of adult westerns had dwindled to seven. That was the genre's last roundup."
"This might have been the last roundup for Papelbon, Tim Wakefield, Jason Varitek, Big Papi, J.D. Drew, Miss Heidi, and several of the others you’ve loved all these years."
"So Duke is 66. But don't kid yourself that he's headed for the last roundup—even though it may have looked that way a while back when he surrendered a lung to cancer."
"[H]e swears that Jelf is going to beat him to the last roundup in the sky."
"[N]ot everyone who runs with the bulls is young, male, drunk and stupid. […] It also is a way for people of a certain age to do something extraordinary before their last roundup."

Etymology

An allusion to herding of cattle into a group.

Usage

American usage

Inflected Forms

last roundups (plural) final roundup (alternative)

Questions

What does last roundup mean?: A final gathering of people or items; the final event in a series of events involving a group or organization.
Where does last roundup come from?: An allusion to herding of cattle into a group.

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