gadabout
Example Sentences
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Schoeffer is a gadabout, and he led the young couple over jebel and oued—hill and stream—in Morocco’s rugged backcountry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2018
That afternoon the strolling couple encounter David’s college friend, Andrew, a sophisticated gadabout and ladies’ man who is immediately smitten with the human tidal wave from Turkestan.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2016
The queen looks serious and demure - nothing like the gadabout many took her to be.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2015
Then Rebecca’s barely in her grave and that gadabout Maxim is littering the place up with some gold-digging floozy who thinks she can waltz right in and take over.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 18, 2015
Run′about, a gadabout: a vagabond: an open wagon; Run′away, one who runs away from danger or restraint: a fugitive.—adj. fleeing from danger or restraint: done by or in flight.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
