Meaning of last roundup | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A final gathering of people or items; the final event in a series of events involving a group or organization.
   US, idiomatic
2. Death.
   US, euphemistic, idiomatic

Examples

“It's last⟳ roundup time, my fellow grocery patrons. On Saturday, the receipt redemption programs operated by Giant Food and Safeway ended after a 5 1/2-month run⟳.”

“[B]y the 1964-65 season, the number⟳ of adult westerns had dwindled to seven. That was the genre's last⟳ roundup.”

“This might have⟳ been the last⟳ roundup for Papelbon, Tim Wakefield, Jason Varitek, Big Papi, J.D. Drew, Miss⟳ Heidi, and several of the others you’ve loved all these years.”

“So Duke is 66. But don't kid yourself that he's headed for the last⟳ roundup—even though it may have⟳ looked that way a while back when he surrendered a lung to cancer.”

“[H]e swears that Jelf is going to beat⟳ him to the last⟳ roundup in the sky.”

“[N]ot everyone who runs with the bulls is young, male, drunk and stupid. […] It also is a way for people of a certain age to do something extraordinary before their last⟳ roundup.”

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