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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

RIGHT-ABOUT

Right "-a *bout `, n. Etym: [Right, adv. + about, adv. ]

Defn: A turning directly about by the right, so as to face in the opposite direction; also, the quarter directly opposite; as, to turn to the right-about. To send to the right-about, to cause to turn toward the opposite point or quarter; -- hence, of troops, to cause to turn and retreat. [Colloq. ] Sir W. Scott.

New American Oxford Dictionary

right-about

right-a bout (also right-about face ) ▶noun Military a right turn continued through 180 ° so as to face in the opposite direction: he did a swift right-about and disappeared.