Definition
A final gathering of people or items; the final event in a series of events involving a group or organization.
Death.
Origins
An allusion to herding of cattle into a group.
In Context
- "It's last roundup time, my fellow grocery patrons. On Saturday, the receipt redemption programs operated by Giant Food and Safeway ended after a 5 1/2-month run."
- "[B]y the 1964-65 season, the number of adult westerns had dwindled to seven. That was the genre's last roundup."
- "This might have been the last roundup for Papelbon, Tim Wakefield, Jason Varitek, Big Papi, J.D. Drew, Miss Heidi, and several of the others you’ve loved all these years."
- "So Duke is 66. But don't kid yourself that he's headed for the last roundup—even though it may have looked that way a while back when he surrendered a lung to cancer."
- "[H]e swears that Jelf is going to beat him to the last roundup in the sky."
- "[N]ot everyone who runs with the bulls is young, male, drunk and stupid. […] It also is a way for people of a certain age to do something extraordinary before their last roundup."