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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