runabout

runabout
/run"euh bowt'/, n.
1. a small, light automobile or other vehicle, usually with an open top; roadster.
2. a small pleasure motorboat.
3. a person who roves around from place to place or group to group.
[1540-50; n. use of v. phrase run about]

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