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thenabouts 

Denoting a general time period (i.e. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday) centered around a specific point in time (i.e. Monday). The surrounding time is thus linked to the specific point and is considered in the same "bracket" of time. Similar to the word "thereabouts" as it denotes a general location of a place in space, thenabouts is used to estimate or give a general location of a place in time and can be used to denote a specific time of day or a group of days, generally one on either side of the specified day.
Example:

(Hour)

Franz: When are you getting back to Santa Barbara?
Esmerelda: Well I'm probably going to take the trip slowly, so I'd imagine seven o'clock or thenabouts.

(Day)

Franz: When are you getting back to Santa Barbara?
Esmerelda: Saturday, so I'll see you Sunday or thenabouts.
thenabouts by Hyejinx September 9, 2008

whenabouts

around the time of; similar to whereabouts, but for time not location
Whenabouts are you going to be at the mall?
whenabouts by RadiantRobot April 28, 2011
Closely related to prom and homecoming. Our best intelligence estimates believe that this is a sort of "reverse" engineering of the basic promenade system, where the chicks ask the guys out for a dance.
Hot damn! Agent Johnson is down again! He was last seen at the Lafayette turnabout!
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turnabout
Turnabout by TakenHandle867 April 17, 2023

tanabout 

A contraction of the words "talking" and "about."

The correct way of saying "talmbout."
What are you tanabout?
tanabout by crepuscula March 26, 2013