Walkabout vs Walkup - What's the difference?
walkabout | walkup |
(Australian aboriginal) A nomadic excursion into the bush, especially one taken by young teenage boys in certain ancient-custom honoring tribes
A walking trip
(British) A public stroll by some celebrity to meet a group of people informally
An absence, usually from a regular place with a possibility of a return.
(Australian)Colloquially used to denote any missing or stolen object ie. "The paper shredder seems to have gone walkabout."
(public stroll)
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Australian Aboriginal English
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 26, author=Audrey Tempelsman, title=Indian Modern Redux, work=New York Times
, passage=The apartment is in the Flowerbox Building, a new doorman condominium on East Seventh Street named after the built-in, self-watering flower boxes that stand in contrast to the street’s dingier tenement walkups .}}
As nouns the difference between walkabout and walkup
is that walkabout is (australian aboriginal) a nomadic excursion into the bush, especially one taken by young teenage boys in certain ancient-custom honoring tribes while walkup is .walkabout
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