Switcharoo vs Switcheroo - What's the difference?
switcharoo | switcheroo | Alternative forms |
(informal) A sneaky, unexpected, or clever swap or exchange.
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* 1977' April 18, Don McGillivray, "
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Switcheroo is a alternative form of switcharoo.
As nouns the difference between switcharoo and switcheroo
is that switcharoo is alternative form of lang=en while switcheroo is a sneaky, unexpected, or clever swap or exchange.switcheroo
English
Alternative forms
* switcharooNoun
(en noun)Business & Finance: '''Switcheroo," ''Time :
- In a corporate merger, it is usually the big company that buys a smaller one. Last week Boston's up & coming Tracerlab, Inc. pulled a switcheroo . Tracerlab, which grossed only $1,700,000 last year, bought the much bigger ($8,000,000 gross) Kelley-Koett Mfg. Co.
Carter, true to form, pulls the ‘'''switcheroo’," ''Montreal Gazette (Canada), p. 22 (retrieved 27 July 2012):
- When you are dealing with American presidents, you always have to watch for the old switcheroo . Lyndon Johnson opposed Barry Goldwater's "extremism" on Vietnam, then proceeded to try to bomb Hanoi back into the stone age. Richard Nixon opposed price and wage controls, until he suddenly adopted them.
On Stage and Off," New York Times (retrieved 27 July 2012):
- The Manhattan Theater Club has pulled a switcheroo , delaying a planned production of Gone Home,'' by John Corwin, and replacing it with ''Four, by the 26-year-old playwright Christopher Shinn.
