Talk:roundheels

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see these links for references to Roundheels. It's a word used in popular fiction and as a political adj as well.

http://www.sex-lexis.com/Sex-Dictionary/roundheels http://www.ellroy.com/glossary.htm http://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html

Roundheels word in use: http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/story.cgi?show=15&story=7167&limit=&sort= http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.19442,filter.all/pub_detail.asp http://www.villagevoice.com/news/9806,stasi,493,4.html

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Noun

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  1. A boxer who knocks out easily.

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Moved from rfd. Eclecticology 08:15, 21 October 2005 (UTC)Reply

I cleaned this one up, just in case. I get Google hits for it, but not many that look like evidence. What do you say? --Dvortygirl 03:20, 17 August 2005 (UTC)Reply

  • here's some link that it's a real word:

see these links for references to Roundheels. It's a word used in popular fiction and as a political adj as well.

Roundheels word in use:

Steve-O 12:56, 21 October 2005 (UTC)Reply


  • Here's another usage, describing a character in It's A Wonderful Life: "As Violet, one of the people whose lives would have been disastrously different had James Stewart's George Bailey never lived, 22-year-old Grahame gives us, in seven snapshot-like scenes covering 17 years, the evolution of a flirt into a full-scale roundheels."

There are also many links to the word being used as a boxing term on Google. I'm surprised that on line dictionarys don't have the word.


Added cites for the woman-of-low-repute sense (including one in Terry Pratchett, as a name) didn't see any in GP for the boxing sense. —Muke Tever 06:11, 28 October 2005 (UTC)Reply


Possible etymology

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Straight From The Fridge, Dad by Max Décharné (a book of 1950s hipster slang) suggests that the round heels would make it easy to fall over backwards (i.e. onto a bed for sex): this also makes sense for the easily-knocked-out boxer. Equinox 06:10, 22 March 2018 (UTC)Reply