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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hereabouts
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Where can a person get a good pastrami sandwich hereabouts?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And I've lived hereabouts since I were born.
▪ But what of the sad, cramped hells, we know lie hidden hereabouts?
▪ His name was Sir Humphrey Agnew, and he had consorted with a witch hereabouts.
▪ It offers another good opportunity to see what younger artists hereabouts are up to.
▪ Not the usual patient-to-physician ratio, even hereabouts.
▪ So, I quickly went into a story about how it was in the 1920s, buying timber hereabouts.
▪ You hear it over and over, talking with folks hereabouts.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hereabouts

Herea-bout \Here"a-bout`\, Hereabouts \Here"a*bouts`\, adv.

  1. About this place; in this vicinity.

  2. Concerning this. [Obs.]

Wiktionary
hereabouts

adv. Near here.

WordNet
hereabouts

adv. in this general vicinity; "the people are friendly hereabouts" [syn: hereabout]

Usage examples of "hereabouts".

There are few enough of us genuine hidalgos de Castilla hereabouts, amongst this rabble of Catalonians and Basque sheep-fuckers.

Indeed the only real opening in the whole chain of defences was between that place and Sheria, the Turks no doubt trusting to the exceptionally difficult country, which hereabouts was a maze of small wadis and nullahs, to prevent any attempt at a break through.

If either Suji or Kuli tried such methods hereabouts, they would be due for trouble when The Shadow neared them.

If not, a stable will have to suffice, though I assume gentlefolk hereabouts ride swans just as they do elsewhere?

Maggie Oates who, as everybody knew for miles around, was a real bad woman and shunned by all other women hereabouts because she was so sinful.

None of the arrhendim hereabouts had reason to suspect there were those who would ride past their warning-signals.

The country hereabouts was getting crowded for free-ranging beef if they'd spent money on this much bobwire.

Six years I been prospectin' hereabouts an' I ain't seen nobody but a Chemehuevi or a Cahuilla in this here country.

The terrain hereabouts was mixed, fingers of high doab running from the clay bluffs along the Drangosh into the lower, flatter country to the east that extended past the Ghor Canal to the foothills of the Gederosian Mountains.

They'll miss me in the gardens, hereabouts, and round by the back doors.

There's nothing charted hereabouts save Pitcairn's Island, and Carteret laid that down a good hundred and fifty miles to the west.

Blifil, who, besides that he is come of honest parents, and will be one of the greatest squires all hereabouts, he is to be sure, in my poor opinion, a more handsomer and a more politer man by half.

As for a pilot, I tell ye what 'tis--if any man hereabouts goes out there to pilot that villain in 'twill be the worst day's work he ever did in all of his life.

After our little stint hereabouts why, I'm ready for some sweat and humidity.

Folks hereabouts is got used to having their menfolks killed and even shot from behind.