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rigamarole en · NOUN

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1. (US, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of rigmarole.
   alt of rigmarole
   • They don't know the meaning of water nor soap I don't have time for the rigamarole 2025, “Type Dangerous”, performed by Mariah Carey:
   • Then I figured he'd missed my point, and I went through the whole blamed rigamarole again, and it ended the same way, with Tweel on his nose in the middle of my picture! 1934, Stanley G. Weinbaum, A Martian Odyssey:
   • “Happy Father's Day! Birdhouse is coming along great. 'Course, the city inspector's riding me about zoning laws, and my electrician's putting me through the whole rigamarole.” “Steve, you've made peace with never being with a woman, right?” “Uh, yeah.” 2016 November 7, Jordan Blum & Parker Deay, “Father's Daze” (3:52 from the start), in American Dad!, season 14, episode 1, spoken by Steve Smith (Scott Grimes):
   • A peasant called Dushkin, who keeps a dram-shop facing the house, brought to the police office a jeweller's case containing some gold ear-rings, and told a long rigamarole. 1914, Fyodor Dostoevsky, translated by Constance Garnett, Crime and Punishment, part II, ch 4:
   • Speak out like a man, and don't give me any more of this tiresome rigamarole. 1899, Stephen Crane, The Monster:

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