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- n an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheadedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months
- n a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward
- v wander aimlessly in search of pleasure
- Publisher Van Lear Black of the Baltimore Sun, gad-abouting over Africa and Europe, was forced down last month on the Italian Riviera.
- Reason: an upstart Australian entrepreneur had signed up 51 of the world's best players, and was threatening to turn the hallowed institution intogad, Sir!another vulgar .
- His style is to restlessly gad aboutfrom character to character, from scene to scene always in the name of art, of course.