around about

Adverb

Meaning

around about (not comparable)

(Australia, informal) Nearly; approximately.

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Examples

Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. George S. Patton

Lars would talk his way into their pants. Kirk had a babyface that was appealing to the girls. And Cliff; he had a big dick. Word got around about that, I guess. James Hetfield

Jim Dandy waves his stick over and around about the rock in a meaningless-meaningful way. William Saroyan

I mean, we've had all these awful pictures from the prison in Iraq and these sort of memos floating around about justifying torture, all this kind of stuff. And it makes you want to take a shower, you know? Ron Reagan

At the first screening, there were a lot of areas that we went around and around about. Then we had our second screening. It played better. It's almost a reasonable length film now! Terry Gilliam

I've been acting since 2002, around about there. Isaiah Mustafa

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