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US
/ˈɹənəˌbaʊt/
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[ UK /ɹˈʌnɐbˌaʊt/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈʌnɐbˌaʊt/ ]
NOUN
- an open automobile having a front seat and a rumble seat
How To Use runabout In A Sentence
- Whether you are looking for an economical city runabout or a first car, a good supermini makes increasingly sound sense for Irish motorists.
- The house comes with a 19-foot runabout, a canoe, kayaks, sailboards, and snorkeling and fishing gear.
- Designed as a city runabout, the two-door hatchback is shorter and narrower than a Maruti 800 and can just accommodate two adults and two children.
- It might just be that these retro runabouts really are something to feel good about.
- `As a matter of fact, I bought me a little runabout only this afternoon. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
- Cobalt boats, widely admired as the Steinways of the runabout class - roughly defined as trailerable craft with inboard motors - are built about as far from a lapping tide as is geographically possible in America.
- The 500C is a pure metropolitan runabout, so its pleasures are centered on its capering nimbleness and maneuverability, not to mention ease of parking. The Fiat 500C Can't Fail
- The runabout was a bare fifty yards ahead of her, and it was coming on with a speed which shook even Lady's excitement-craving nerves. Further Adventures of Lad
- I mean, if you decide you need a motorized runabout because you have a dicky hip or your monstrous bulk is too heavy to haul to Safeway, do you qualify?
- Such advances have lengthened servicing intervals in many cases to two years or up to 19,000 miles on ordinary runabouts.