0 an occasion when an important person walks around a public place, meeting and talking to members of the public:
1 a long journey by an Australian Aboriginal, especially on foot for cultural reasons:
To facilitate this, a walkabout sawmill is lent to the group by the sponsoring agency.
A media event such as a" walkabout" portrays a media subservient to the political actor.
She brightens our lives on great ceremonial occasions, which we in this country manage to perfection, and also on informal occasions, such as walkabouts in shopping centres.
I went on a number of walkabouts in my constituency around the shopping centres, expecting to meet shoppers who would talk to me about the increase in food prices.
I am satisfied that there was no malice whatsoever in their action, which resulted from an excess of seasonal spirit and a mischievous walkabout.
The last farm we shall visit in this sort of walkabout is a farmhouse which does not have any water at all.
The cash had been lost or had gone walkabout.
What happens if the operator has gone walkabout or bust and is no longer there?
