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.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
n. a collection or summary of news items, such as a weather roundup, news roundup, etc. : Tune in at eleven for a roundup of the day's news.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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