gadabout

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She was a "gadabout," as they say, and spent a great part of her time amongst the kept women of the neighborhood, whose acquaintance she had made.

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  1. noun One who roams or roves about, as in search of amusement or social activity.

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  • Still very much the gadabout, he serves actively on several county boards and as supervisor of the Guyan Soil and Water Conservation District.
  • Goode played Charles Ryder in last year's "Brideshead Revisited," and I fear that, even as Ozymandias murders millions from his Antarctic lair, which he does at the climax of "Watchmen," Goode's floppy blond locks and swallowed consonants remain those of a young gadabout who might, at worst, twist the leg off his Teddy bear. —  Expecting Rain
  • The Everything For Sale Show aired June 13th 1982, with O'Brien (writer, Warhol-ite and once New Wave gadabout) loosely holding the reins - extremely loosely by this point in the show's life. —  GotPoetry.com News
  • She was a "gadabout," as they say, and spent a great part of her time amongst the kept women of the neighborhood, whose acquaintance she had made. —  Bohemians of the Latin Quarter
  • But here am I preaching away like any old gadabout, and you not as much as taken your bonnet off yet. —  The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891
 

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/ˈgædəbaʊt/
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