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- noun Plural form of
gadabout .
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Examples
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I told Mr. Grady before we left that this is my last time on one of his gadabouts.
Judge deveraux The Scent of Jasmine 2011
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For years, researchers have debated over whether our ancient kinfolk were simple homebodies or early gadabouts.
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Two local gadabouts have decided to use their powers for good, combining forces to create DConstruction.
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Barnum World with these manic gadabouts like Paglia, Coulter..
"The agile, articulate Greta, with her keen legal mind and rugged, strong-jawed persistence, will be on the scene to unearth every lie!" Ann Althouse 2007
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They are gadabouts and they expend themselves in motion as a defense mechanism by which to avoid their own thoughts.
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Mr. and Mrs. Robin with a second set of eggs, while those gadabouts up there haven't even begun to think about housekeeping yet.
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They're not all slovens an 'gadabouts even though you're a pious, decent lass!
The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II Gerhart Hauptmann 1904
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She despised style, and regarded her sisters as frivolous ninnies and gadabouts.
Leonora Arnold Bennett 1899
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People who are rolling-stones claim that if you travel far enough and long enough the whole world becomes as one village; that sooner or later you make friends with every one in it; that the only difference between the stay-at-homes and the gadabouts is that while the former answer local telephone calls, the others receive picture postal-cards.
The White Mice Richard Harding Davis 1890
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"Where have you two gadabouts been?" he laughed merrily.
The Little Gray Lady 1909 Francis Hopkinson Smith 1876
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