role reversal

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role reversal (countable and uncountable, plural role reversals)

  1. A situation in which two people adopt roles that are the reverse of the roles they normally assume in relation to one another.
    • 1996, Placebo (lyrics and music), “Nancy Boy”:
      And it all breaks down at the role reversal
      Got the muse in my head, she's universal
      Spinning me round, she's coming over me
    • 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 74:
      The table opposite me is occupied by a young couple with a table full of alcohol and snacks. In a role reversal, he is drinking Smirnoff Ice while she steadily demolishes a six-pack of lager!

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