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Rubicon

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Noun

1. rubicon

the boundary in ancient times between Italy and Gaul; Caesar's crossing it with his army in 49 BC was an act of war

2. point of no return, rubicon

a line that when crossed permits of no return and typically results in irrevocable commitment

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Rubicon

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noun
1. 
a stream in N Italy: in ancient times the boundary between Italy and Cisalpine Gaul. By leading his army across it and marching on Rome in 49 bc, Julius Caesar broke the law that a general might not lead an army out of the province to which he was posted and so committed himself to civil war with the senatorial party
2. (sometimes not capital)
a point of no return
3. 
a penalty in piquet by which the score of a player who fails to reach 100 points in six hands is added to his or her opponent's
4.  cross the Rubicon

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Rubicon

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small river in N Italy that formed the boundary between Cisalpine Gaul & the Roman Republic: when Caesar crossed it (49 b.c.) at the head of his army to march on Rome, he began the civil war with Pompey

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Rubicon

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n.
A limit that when passed or exceeded permits of no return and typically results in irrevocable commitment.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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