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  • noun Plural form of runabout.

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Examples

  • The ship rocked again, less severely this time, and the Klingon warship momentarily flitted across the main viewer, swooping toward Intrepid and her cluster of support shuttles and runabouts.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • “Captain, if the medical forensic team can make use of one of the runabouts . . .”

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • On each side of the narrow channel, houses with extravagant wood decks sat perched on top of the steep wooded cliffs, their decks overlooking the islets in the channel and connected to the shore below by long sinuous wood stairs, some ending at flotation docks to which were tied little sport runabouts or rigged-up fishing skiffs.

    Working Title: "Third Persons" Glenn Klopfenstein 2011

  • “Captain, if the medical forensic team can make use of one of the runabouts . . .”

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • The ship rocked again, less severely this time, and the Klingon warship momentarily flitted across the main viewer, swooping toward Intrepid and her cluster of support shuttles and runabouts.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • Men -- Americans -- driving along in buggies or runabouts looked at

    CHAPTER I 2010

  • The ship rocked again, less severely this time, and the Klingon warship momentarily flitted across the main viewer, swooping toward Intrepid and her cluster of support shuttles and runabouts.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • The ship rocked again, less severely this time, and the Klingon warship momentarily flitted across the main viewer, swooping toward Intrepid and her cluster of support shuttles and runabouts.

    Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011

  • Running up more debt to subsidize electric runabouts for suburbanites is not such a sign.

    Welfare Wagons 2010

  • It has everything . . . a swimming pool that turns into a dance floor, sailboats, a Chris-Craft cruiser, runabouts, anything you want to do.

    The Kennedy Detail Gerald Blaine 2010

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