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go walkabout1Wander around from place to place in a protracted or leisurely way: I thought I’d just go walkabout and see what I can dig up he’s gone walkabout for reasons of his own...- I've lived in the same house for 10 years now and I'm still redelivering mail to neighbours, wondering as I go walkabout who has received mine and what they may do with it.
- After a concert in Los Angeles, he went walkabout and was found beaten up in a gutter.
- Then he was dropped by the Roosters to Premier League for going walkabout and missing training.
2(Of an Australian Aboriginal) journey into the bush in order to live in the traditional manner.At 16 make all children go walkabout in the Bush learning traditional skills and to do without modern technology for a year....- So they go walkabout with the Aborigine for what must be months but, just like the characters, we are unable to gauge time.
- Even today aborigines in the outback habitually go walkabout to experience what they call the ‘songlines’, singing the old songs and tunes and thereby continuing the very essence of creation.
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