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An allusion to herding of cattle into a group.

noun last roundups · final roundup

  1. US, idiomatic A final gathering of people or items; the final event in a series of events involving a group or organization. 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.
  2. US, euphemistic, idiomatic Death. 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.

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@misc{last_roundup_2026,
  title = {last roundup},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/last%20roundup},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}