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noun Greek Cookery.

meat, usually lamb, roasted on a vertical spit, then thinly sliced, topped with onions, and usually served in a sandwich of pita bread.

Origin:
1970–75; < Modern Greek gŷros literally, turn, revolution; see gyre

a combining form meaning “ring,” “circle,” “spiral,” used in the formation of compound words: gyromagnetic; gyroscope.

Also, especially before a vowel, gyr-.

Origin:
< Greek gŷros ring, noun use of gȳrós round

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gyro (ˈdʒaɪrəʊ)

—n , pl -ros
1.	See gyrocompass
2.	See gyroscope

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gyro

sandwich made from roasted lamb, late 20c., originally the meat itself, as roasted on a rotating spit, from Modern Gk. gyros "a circle," mistaken in Eng. for a plural and shorn of its -s.

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gyrocompass
gyroscope

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