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walkabout; walk-about
noun
a journey on foot taken by an Aboriginal, especially when withdrawing from white society for a period AUSTRALIA, 1910- The police picked him up, reared him, and he had been a tracker ever since, except for the periodical walk-about. — Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, p. 6, 1947
▶ go walkabout- (of an Aboriginal) to go on a walkabout AUSTRALIA, 1927
- He doesn’t pretend to be anything but what he is, an Australian Aborigine who likes to “go walkabout” every so often. — Roy Higgins and Tom Prior, The Jockey Who Laughed, p. 18, 1982
- (of a person) to go off somewhere else AUSTRALIA
- [D]idn’t it ever occur to you / That to dump clothes in the corner instead of washing them out / Means that when they’ve been there long enough they will go walkabout? — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, p. 228, 1969
- — Max Fatchen, Chase through the Night, p. 95, 1976
- A man lies flat on his face and those little yellow dolls go walkabout on your arse. — Barry Humphries, The Traveller’s Tool, p. 88, 1985
- — Phillip Gwynne, Deadly Unna?, p. 225, 1998
- It doesn’t even matter if your team’s gone walkabout–it’s a hat tournament and you can do it on your pat malone. — Australian Ultimate, p. 7, 2003
- (of an important person) to make an informal tour on foot UK, 1984
Variants include “do a walkabout”. - The northern neighbourhood was the most solidly Ba’athist of Baghdad–so secure that Saddam did a walkabout there just three days before the US tanks rolled in. — The Guardian, 21 April 2003
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