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runabout
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Word definitions for runabout in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of several small vehicles, especially a small motor car for use on short journeys.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A runabout is an American light, open, horse-drawn vehicle with four large wheels. Similar to a buggy , the runabout was used for informal, utilitarian travel or "running about" on errands. One type was also called a "driving wagon", made very light in ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat [syn: roadster , two-seater ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, in reference to persons, from run (v.) + about (adv.). From 1890 as a small, light type of carriage; later extended to motor cars.
Usage examples of runabout.
As it skidded across the deck, foam shot from emitters, and nets stretched between the deck and ceiling, catching the runabout and preventing any serious damage to the craft, its inhabitants, or the shuttlebay.
Liesvelt was patient, easing the runabout through the tangle of cargo haulers and passenger vehicles at a steady pace, until at last they emerged from the District and he could turn onto one of the major cross-town arteries.
Here the traffic was just as heavy, but the lines of runabouts and bikes moved more quickly, and they made better time toward the neighborhood where van Liesvelt said Fate had his bolthole.
The road was busier, too, battered runabouts with unmatched panels and the ubiquitous pickups, each with its bed full of miscellaneous machinery.
Cerise said, and opened the throttle as the line of runabouts picked up speed.
Mabry careful to keep the line of parked cars and runabouts between them and the rooming house.
DS9, we devised a security protocol to keep our runabouts out of Maquis hands.
A heterogeneous and rather casual assortment of utility flyers, passenger saloons, sky-cars, runabouts and inspection drifters, to the number of sixty, each with a complement of from two to eight armed men, assembled at Morningswake, then flew down to Lake Dor, to discover that the Uldra raiders were already retreating across the rocky barrens west of the lake.
Because all the Klingon shuttlecraft were gone, helping the Aluwnans with their transporter satellites, there was plenty of room for the larger runabout to enter and find a place to set down.
The little runabout turned down an avenue lined with feathery anaerobic palm trees and pink statuary and bounced up a flight of broad marble steps into a turntable-style airlock.
But before she could come up with a suitably insulting rejoinder for Brinner, Ezri felt her throat tense up as she recognized what was coming through the runabout door.
And he escorted her back to the runabout without too many people commiserating with her.
Major Kira felt a twinge of trepidation as she watched the runabout status displays, doublechecking as Sisko and O'Brien put the Rubicon through a brief systems check, then powered it up for departure.
The Loon, the Blackduck, and Pizza Dave’s little aluminum runabout were all snugged up to the concrete.
As the building collapsed, the runabout raced into the expanding blast wave.