Definitions for gadabouts

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gadabouts gad·a·bout

Spelling: [gad-uh-bout]

IPA: /ˈgæd əˌbaʊt/

Gadabouts is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 331 anagrams from letters in gadabouts (aabdgostu).

Definitions for gadabouts

noun

1. a person who moves about restlessly or aimlessly, especially from one social activity to another.
2. a person who travels often or to many different places, especially for pleasure.

Origin of gadabouts

First recorded in 1810-20; noun use of verb phrase gad about

Examples for gadabouts

Not a sign of the presence of the gadabout was to be seen on the waters before them.

Upon which gadabout cried, “Then let us be off: it is quite time we should.”

I can tell the toot of the gadabout if Gabriel was blowing the whistle.

I told you both the gadabout and the other skiff are around the point.

Yet why should I after all abuse the gadabout propensities of my countrymen?

Yet why should I, after all, abuse the gadabout propensities of my countrymen?

Fleming gadabout and monk feeder, thou shalt be hanged with them.

In the face of her husband's illness, Dolly could not prove a gadabout.

Not four years since I still had her under me at school, and she was already a gadabout.

I am not to be stopped on the king's service by every gadabout.