Definition of "get about"

get about

verb
third-person singular simple present gets about, present participle getting about, simple past got about, past participle (UK) got about or (US) gotten about
1. (informal) To be mobile, physically active.
  Quotations
  The first walk I took when I grew stronger and was able to get about was up to Aunt Jane's, notwithstanding she had never so much as been to ask after me all these days.
  1898, J. Meade Falkner, chapter 5, in Moonfleet, London, Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934
2. (informal) To become widely known; to be leaked to the public or a wider audience.
3. (informal) To visit a variety of different places.

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