Usually means: Circular ride with moving horses.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word merry-go-round:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. merry-go-round: Merriam-Webster
  2. merry-go-round: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. merry-go-round: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. merry-go-round, merry-go-round: Collins English Dictionary
  5. merry-go-round: Vocabulary.com
  6. merry-go-round: Wordnik
  7. merry-go-round: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. merry-go-round: Wiktionary
  9. merry-go-round: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. merry-go-round: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Merry-go-round, merry-go-round: Dictionary.com
  12. merry-go-round: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Merry-go-round, The Merry-Go-Round: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Merry-go-round: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. merry-go-round: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. merry-go-round: Rhymezone
  17. merry-go-round: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. merry-go-round: FreeDictionary.org
  19. merry-go-round: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. merry-go-round: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. merry-go-round: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. merry-go-round, merry-go-round, merry-go-round, merry-go-round: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. merry-go-round: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See merry-go-rounds as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A carousel; a pleasure ride, typically found at fairs and amusement parks, consisting of a slowly revolving circular platform on which various seats are fixed, frequently shaped like horses or other animals.
noun:  A piece of playground equipment consisting of a circular platform that is made to revolve by pushing while users stand on it.
noun:  (figuratively) A meaningless cycle; a bustle of activity that gets nowhere
noun:  (rail transport) A freight train of hopper wagons which loads and unloads its cargo while moving, a balloon loop being provided at power stations.
noun:  (baseball, figurative) A series of singles and doubles that allow the batting team to score while still having runners on base who can be driven in by the next batter.
noun:  (Kenya) A cooperative scheme in which members regularly contribute money to a pool, and the collected money is then paid out to one of the members, repeating so that every member has eventually received the collected money.

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