Synonyms for rounders
noun philandererAntonyms for rounders
- playgirl
Word Origin & History
1620s, "a sentinel," agent noun from round (n.) on notion of "one who makes the rounds." Sense of "chronic drunkard or criminal" is from 1854, on notion of one who is habitually in and out of jails or bars. Rounders, a baseball-like game, attested from 1828.
Example Sentences forrounders
Rounders longed to be like one of these, but he found it to be impossible.
But Rounders was Rounders, and I did not allow my irritation to continue.
She was young and what the rounders call a good-looking chicken.
I had an idea it came natural to a body, like rounders and touch.
"This is a real show," said Rounders, wound up to enthusiasm.
Rounders asked him if he meant to say that all lions were vicious.
Rounders fancied he could almost hear the frizzle of the flesh.
It is not my intention to declare the old game of rounders a myth.
In rounders the bases are five in number and the field a pentagon in shape.
There is a fair and foul hit in base-ball, while in rounders no such thing is known.