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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

go walkabout en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (Australia, UK, colloquial, of an object) To go missing from its usual place; to be lost or stolen.
    • The paper shredder seems to have gone walkabout.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, walkabout.
    • You could almost hear him shout 'Geronimo'. It was bound to end in tears. Sure enough when his owner had let him go walkabout on the kitchen table he had taken his chance, raced for the edge, and made his own giant leap for hamsterkind. 1995, Nigel Taylor, A vet called Nigel, page 58:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
goes walkabout Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
gone walkabout Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
went walkabout Tense=Past lexicographic
going walkabout Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Relateds

AWOL

Synonyms

go walkies