Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
globetrot . - noun
worldwide travel
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Examples
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British Binatone founder Gulu Lalvani owns property here and is known as a globetrotting celebrity and multu-millionaire.
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There was a time when the Herald's Director of New Content, Dan Leger would have sent Amy Smith back out to ask the right questions of her "globetrotting" MLAs.
Halifax Live 2009
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There was a time when the Herald's Director of New Content, Dan Leger would have sent Amy Smith back out to ask the right questions of her "globetrotting" MLAs.
Halifax Live 2009
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Bill Clinton has largely stayed out of the limelight, quietly continuing his globetrotting on behalf of the world's poor and downtrodden.
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Bill sez, "Today, Thursday, is the 90th birthday of Fred Pohl, science fiction novelist, who has also been a literary agent, teenage magazine editor, political activist, globetrotting lecturer, and member of SF fandom."
Boing Boing 2009
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"If Tomorrow Comes," starring Madolyn Smith and Tom Berenger pictured above as globetrotting jewel thieves, has all the hallmarks of a 1980s miniseries: big hair, a big, melodramatic score and a pivotal chess duel with Russians.
TV on DVD 2011
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Adam Golfer for The Wall Street Journal New York artist Hunt Slonem Mr. Slonem's studio décor doesn't stop with the walls, though: At age 60, he has spent a globetrotting lifetime amassing quirky collections, from Neo-Gothic chairs to top hats to marble busts of Marie Antoinette, and he's arrayed many of these objects throughout the space in time-warp vignettes.
An Oddball Menagerie Kelly Crow 2011
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Is there some reason why they couldn't make intelligent decisions without going globetrotting around the world when they could just pick up a phone or type an email?
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Now that the globetrotting parents have returned (Vietnam this time) I've palmed Wilson off onto my poor mother for a few days so I can hunker down and get to the finishing line on this sucker.
Reluctant Mage wordcount karenmiller 2009
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Many tennis players come to see globetrotting as soul-crushing and do little more than shuttle back and forth between their hotel rooms and the tennis courts.
Federer's Best Shot Tom Perrotta 2011
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