walkabout

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What he really needed was a walkabout, a journey of personal discovery, and fortunately the homeopathic remedy helped him enormously on that road.

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  1. noun Australian A temporary return to traditional Aboriginal life, taken especially between periods of work or residence in white society and usually involving a period of travel through the bush.
  2. noun A walking trip.
  3. noun Chiefly British A public stroll taken by an important person, such as a monarch, among a group of people for greeting and conversation.

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  • M'lay had left two days ago with breather and shielded exosuit on another walkabout, his on-going and fruitless search for humans. —  Magazine - Aeon Authors - 2006 - Issue 07 - Aeon Seven
  • In the midst of a mid-morning meeting after an early morning walkabout, YB Tony Phua, MP for PJ Utara, and YB Ronnie Liu, Adun for Pandamaran, Klang was informed by the landlord of this rented outlet that the Menteri Besar has ordered him to disallow rental to DAP. —  zorro-unmasked
  • After going to a Greg Nickels walkabout, and hearing City Council members talk, this critic is ready to give a new grade to Seattle's storm response -- an "I" for incomplete. —  Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News
  • Thank you for understanding my yearly walkabout, and for your patience and devotion. —  EDSBS
  • In this case, the corpse of an insane gang elder inexplicably takes rises for a walkabout and Sone haplessly chases him through bizarre adventures involving a restaurant with a cross-dressing cook, an inn run by a matron who lactates enough to keep the local populace in bottled milk and a junk yard that doubles as a tannery for the tattooed skins of disposed criminals. —  GreenCine Daily
 

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