out and about
Proposed by a contributor, not yet supported by evidence.
Meaning · English
Actively going out and participating in social activities
Literally: physically outside and moving around
Where it’s used:
Used
Widespread English
Examples
You went out and about for twelve weeks with your tutor constable, if you like, they call it puppy walking he was the highly trained policeman and I was the new policeman, I was with him for twelve weeks.
Visit a museum or an exhibition and find out about other explorers like Sir Francis Drake or Marco Polo.
British National Corpus sentence via the MAGPIE corpus (CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)
Sources & notes
Listed on Wikipedia “Irreversible binomial” (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-29). Definition drafted by AI (@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast) and auto-approved by rule on 2026-07-30; pending editor spot-check.
Common questions
What does “out and about” mean?
Actively going out and participating in social activities Literally: physically outside and moving around
Is “out and about” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.