Rounder
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- For the record company, see Rounder Records.
The term rounder can mean several things. As heard in old songs starting "Come all you rounders", it refers to those living a honky tonk life. As the Shorter Oxford Dictionary puts it, "One who makes the rounds of prisons, workhouses, drinking saloons, etc; a habitual criminal, loafer, or drunkard". The dictionary states it is an American word first recorded in 1884.
The word also has other, more specific meanings.
[edit] Card players
A rounder is a card shark who makes his/her living entirely at playing cards.
The term rounder carries a certain respect amongst card players, as they know anyone with that title knows their way around a table and is a person to be taken seriously" The term sometimes also implies a player making a living by "hustling" less experienced players.
Some noted rounders include Doyle Brunson, Amarillo Slim, and Sailor Roberts. A movie about poker titled Rounders was made in 1998, starring Matt Damon and Edward Norton (who surprisingly looks like and has similar characteristics to Daniel Negreanu).
[edit] Additional Definitions
- A railroad man who worked at a roundhouse, a building shaped as a partial circle where steam locomotives were stored and serviced. The locomotives were put in position via a turntable, a special track built on a bridge-like structure that turned about a central axis; each stall of the roundhouse had a track that ran to the edge of the turntable, and the turntable track was lined up with a stall track for the locomotive to move into. The turntable was sometimes rotated by an engine, but often was moved manually; the men who turned the table were known as "rounders".
- A Methodist preacher travelling a circuit, also referred to as a circuit rider. In the song by the Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen (written by Mike Richards), "Kentucky Hills of Tennessee", there is a line: "My daddy was a rounder, he wore a rounder's hat and coat." This was typically a white fur hat.
- A score in a game of rounders.
