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Gallivant


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To play the beau; to wait upon the ladies; also, to roam about for pleasure without any definite plan.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We didn’t tell him how central his role was, we didn’t want to make him nervous.” It’s notable that after gallivanting around the globe for centuries, Clement and Waititi’s vampires have settled in Wellington, New Zealand.
  • (2) But as you get a bit older, you pick up injuries, you get speaking to foreign players, you think maybe that’s not the way to be going, out and about, gallivanting.
  • (3) Cesar leads the lads out Times change, and there'll be nothing quite like all that innocent gallivanting this evening, as Lisbon (this time at Benfica's shiny new Estádio da Luz) hosts the biggest match in European club football for the second time.
  • (4) The tale, drawn in the retro style of the golden age of adventure comics, portrays Johnson as a "dashing, pug-nosed chap, gallivanting around the world in search of danger and adventure".
  • (5) The guy who wants to drink the Hennessy, the guy who wants to gallivant in the street with a bunch of crude women, that's that guy talking right now.
  • (6) Noble sent Tim Howard the wrong way from the spot but soon earned a second yellow card for fouling the gallivanting Barkley.

Gallivat


Definition:

  • (n.) A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, -- used on the Malabar coast.

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