walkabout
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walkabout
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Deverbal from walk about, originally in Australian Pidgin English.
noun walkabouts
- A period, often extended, during which an Aboriginal person left a station or settlement to travel on country, typically seasonally or for traditional cultural reasons; a journey by foot taken by an Aboriginal as a temporary withdrawal from white society. The police picked him up, reared him, and he had been a tracker ever since, except for periodical walk-abouts.
- A walking trip.
- A public stroll by some celebrity to meet a group of people informally. While the world altered dramatically during the course of her reign, the monarchy did too, though rather more imperceptibly: the walkabouts that increasingly characterised royal appearances, the pop concerts at Buckingham Palace, the throwing open of the royal palaces to visitors – even the paying o
- An absence, usually from a regular place with a possibility of a return.
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noun walking trip
| Français | périple |
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noun public stroll
| Español | baño de masas |
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| Français | bain de foule |
| Deutsch | Bad in der Menge, öffentlicher Spaziergang |
| Italiano | bagno di folla |
Talk about this word "walkabout." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/walkabout. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. walkabout. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/walkabout "walkabout." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/walkabout.Cite this
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title = {walkabout},
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year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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