meandering
noun1
An instance or period of roaming.
meandering
adj1
Winding or rambling.
- After petrol rationing ended in 1952, the BTC was aware that more swingeing cuts had to be made, and a sinister message was conveyed by the loss of the meandering 38-mile route from Blisworth to Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1952, and the 25-mile Abergavenny-Merthyr Heads of the Valleys line in January 1958.2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51:
- “Billups, how much farther to the compound?” “At our meandering speed, 15 minutes?”2024 October 31, Stephanie Amante-Ritter, “The Best Exotic Nanite Hotel” (12:44 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 5, episode 3, spoken by Andy Billups (Paul Scheer):
- Derived terms
- meanderingly, unmeandering