Talk:roundheels
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
- A boxer who knocks out easily.
RFV discussion: roundheels
- Moved from rfd. Eclecticology 08:15, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
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)
- 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:
- 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
Steve-O 12:56, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
- I posted it. Here's a link, a pretty cool one, with the term: http://www.ellroy.com/glossary.htm The term is a known noir-ish type word. Steve-O
- 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.
- Keep. I just Googled as well and saw that "rounder" referred to a man, and "roundheels" a woman, of low repute. Cheers, --Stranger 00:54, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
- 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)
Possible etymology
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)