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Answer for the clue "Free to wander ", 9 letters:
footloose

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Word definitions for footloose in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, "free to move the feet, unshackled," from foot (n.) + loose . Figurative sense of "free to act as one pleases" is from 1873.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
footloose \footloose\ adj. without ties to a particular location; free to roam; wandering. Syn: aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant. without dependents or responsibilities. Syn: untrammeled, untrammelled. having no commitments or restrictions. ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Footloose is the title of two soundtracks, the first, released in 1984, to the 1984 film Footloose and the second, released in 2011, to the 2011 remake .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. free to go or do as one pleases; "Americans have always been a footloose people always moving on"; "a footloose young man eager to see the big city"

Usage examples of footloose.

And at that time every footloose wanderer and entrepreneur in the Galaxy will start for the Eryx Region to make his fortune.

He learned that a band of Footloose travelers had passed through the environs of the port town the previous week and been chased off the land on which they had traditionally camped these past twenty years and more, and that in their wake the wife of the merchant Paulo Foring had prematurely given birth to a monstera child with a huge head and wings instead of arms, that had torn her apart as it breached, and that she would probably not survive.

It was a port and customhouse, a tangle of shipyards, storage drogues, quarantines, and social houses, catering to the vices of the footloose, the isolated, and the estranged.

More as an academic exercise than out of real interest, I inquired of the reptilian GM and my chef de cuisine what they thought would happen here, now that there were fifty or so longtime loyalists footloose and fancy free and looking for work elsewhere in the company.

He had been footloose and fancy free, and when asked if he would accept such an appointment he had said that he would, but at the time he had not dreamed O'Connor was serious.

After leaving Durban, we spent a twomonth vacation roaming footloose and fancy free all over the east part of Africa, and this glorious country must be among some of the most spectacular on the face of the earth.

Now, and let me stress this, around one hundred and fifty bodies put out like pairs of pants and dresses for the use of-one deep breath-over three thousand footloose egos.

Maybe we can find a footloose seamstress before we take the railroad train&mdash.

He liked women, and this one in particular whetted his interest, with her single state, her sassiness, occasional cursing and footloose ways.