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Meaning of go walkabout | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To go missing from its usual place; to be lost or stolen.
    Australia, UK, colloquial
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, walkabout.

Equivalents

Polski zgubić

Examples

“The paper shredder seems to have gone 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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

go walkies go walking go way back go west go whacks go whistle

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