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gadabouts

gadabouts is the plural of gadabout.

Meaning of gadabout

Noun

gadabout (plural gadabouts)

  1. A person who restlessly moves from place to place, seeking amusement or the companionship of others.
    • I was among the last to board the ferry. ... Chilean tourists, Uruguayan doctors, old Argentine gadabouts of high-society heritage, ladies wearing strident perfumes, families, all of them in those same light blue sneakers, like Smurfs.2021, Pedro Mairal, chapter 11, in The Woman from Uruguay, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN

Questions about gadabouts

What is gadabouts the plural of?
Gadabouts is the plural of gadabout.

Words near gadabouts in the dictionary

  1. gada
  2. Gadaafi
  3. Gadaba
  4. Gadabas
  5. gadabout
  6. gadabouts
  7. Gadaffi
  8. Gadaffism
  9. Gadaffy
  10. Gadafi
  11. Gadafism

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