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  • noun Alternative spelling of right-about.

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Examples

  • So while we held our positions (and J.B. continued to do nothing), the people kept their distance - except for one cool hand, a doctor, who approached the arsenal, was given the rightabout by Hazlett, and then crossed the street bold as brass to demand of J.B. what he thought he was about, and, on being told, denounced him for a murderer.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • Why, it will give these ... these slavers the rightabout altogether!

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • Should Ignatius be even close to being rightabout war with Iran while the U.S. troops are still in Iraq, I predict an uprising of not just "Security Moms" but also a moribund Congress in response to constituents who will explode in fury.

    Is Electorate Ready To Reject GOP Militarism? 2009

  • If I wasn't doing this for free, I'd dock my pay rightabout now.

    Voter Intimidation In Florida? Nathaniel Livingston 2004

  • When the Draken heard that he made off to the rightabout at once, and ran so fast that the fox was dashed in pieces against the stones.

    The Grey Fairy Book 2003

  • So Joe starts telling the citizen about the foot and mouth disease and the cattle traders and taking action in the matter and the citizen sending them all to the rightabout and Bloom coming out with his sheepdip for the scab and a hoose drench for coughing calves and the guaranteed remedy for timber tongue.

    Ulysses 2003

  • So while we held our positions (and J.B. continued to do nothing), the people kept their distance - except for one cool hand, a doctor, who approached the arsenal, was given the rightabout by Hazlett, and then crossed the street bold as brass to demand of J.B. what he thought he was about, and, on being told, denounced him for a murderer.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • So while we held our positions (and J.B. continued to do nothing), the people kept their distance - except for one cool hand, a doctor, who approached the arsenal, was given the rightabout by Hazlett, and then crossed the street bold as brass to demand of J.B. what he thought he was about, and, on being told, denounced him for a murderer.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • Why, it will give these ... these slavers the rightabout altogether!

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • Why, it will give these … these slavers the rightabout altogether!

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

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