• Rigamarole

    Full definition of rigamarole

    Noun

    rigamarole

    (uncountable)
    1. (chiefly US) Alternative form of rigmarole
      • 1899, Stephen Crane, "":Speak out like a man, and don't give me any more of this tiresome rigamarole.
      • 1914, Constance Garnett translating , , part II, ch 4:A peasant called Dushkin, who keeps a dram-shop facing the house, brought to the police office a jeweller's case containing some gold ear-rings, and told a long rigamarole.
      • 1934, Stanley G. Weinbaum, A Martian Odyssey:Then I figured he'd missed my point, and I went through the whole blamed rigamarole again, and it ended the same way, with Tweel on his nose in the middle of my picture!
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