Walkabout
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Walkabout is an English language expression with several meanings:
- Walkabout is an Australian pidgin (or perhaps quasi-pidgin) term referring to the belief that Australian Aborigines "go walkabout" at the age of thirteen in the wilderness for six months as a rite of passage. The term is used in the film Crocodile Dundee among others.
- This meaning has lead to a jocular modern usage, whereby someone who has unexpectedly wandered off to destination uncertain is said to have 'gone walkabout'. It can also apply to a missing item, for example, "Have you seen my stapler, Doreen? It's gone walkabout again."
- In the UK, a walkabout is a name for organised group meetings in which members of the British Royal Family walk past assembled crowds of onlookers, meeting and chatting with various members of the public.
- Walkabout may be used to refer to a person's desire to travel without a planned itinerary or set destination; the commoner English term is wanderlust.
- Walkabout is a film.
- "Walkabout" is a Babyon 5 episode
- "Walkabout" is an episode of Lost.
- Walkabout is an Australia-themed pub chain