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gadabout

[gad-uh-baut] / ˈgæd əˌbaʊt /
NOUN
rambler
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Every time someone would exit, Chip Py, photographer and Silver Spring gadabout, would shout, “What’d you order?”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2023

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

Caroline Copeland was a welcome omnipresence as choreographer and dancer in “Carnaval” and as a mute gadabout, Fulvio, in the Pergolesi, holding the stage with her antics before the performance and at intermission as well.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2017

The queen looks serious and demure - nothing like the gadabout many took her to be.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2015

I was just about to send Philip out to find you, gadabout.

From Kildares of Storm by Eleanor Mercein Kelly


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