Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. 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.
- n. A walking trip.
- n. Chiefly British A public stroll taken by an important person, such as a monarch, among a group of people for greeting and conversation.
Wiktionary
- n. Australian aboriginal A nomadic excursion into the bush, especially one taken by young teenage boys in certain ancient-custom honoring tribes
- n. A walking trip
- n. UK A public stroll by some celebrity to meet a group of people informally
- n. An absence, usually from a regular place with a possibility of a return.
WordNet 3.0
- n. nomadic excursions into the bush made by an Aborigine
- n. a walking trip or tour
- n. a public stroll by a celebrity to meet people informally
Etymologies
- From Kriol wokabat. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“We as society slowly move closer to the axiom “that the land has always been ours,” aiming to provide an united and monolithic view of a historical walkabout from the Paleolithic to Tito, even though some of the episodes are not quite “safe” and lead to the above mentioned failures of reason.”
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“I have been trying to make my mind up if this shambles over the two data discs which have gone walkabout is a sea-change moment or not.”
“There was no walkabout, which is a great pity, I think, given the reception they got when they arrived, an even bigger reception when they came out as man and wife.”
“Kind of a 'walkabout' or as the locals say ... irme a pueblear.”
“Kind of a 'walkabout' or as the Chilangos say ... "ir puebleando".”
“Bottom line: Right now, Democrats are doing the "walkabout" the term used to define those times when tennis star Evonne Goolagong lost focus and couldn't get back into the "zone.”
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“When the royal couple arrived for a '' walkabout '' in some town and split up the street -- Charles heading to one side, Diana to the other -- people on Charles 'side of the street would groan audibly: they had wanted HER and got stuck with HIM.”
“At her annual birthday "walkabout," she did just that for 40 minutes (with a cane), greeting throngs of cheering well-wishers outside her Clarence House residence.”
“Mandela when he goes "walkabout" in Kathlehong, Thokoza, Phola”
“Along the way, they meet a young aborigine on his "walkabout," a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.”
Lists
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Words that are also movies
Unabashedly stolen from a comment made by courier12.
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
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Days Off
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Journeys
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Fave words
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Motion and Commotion
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