- 1a dangerous game in which a person shoots at their own head with a gun that contains a bullet in only one of its chambers, so that the person does not know if the gun will fire or not
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- 2(figurative) The airline was accused of playing Russian roulette with passenger safety.
Check pronunciation: Russian roulette