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when one is linked to an article on wikipedia and proceeds to spend an inordinate amount of time following links about completely unrelated articles. named for the walkabout wherein australian aboriginals walk in the desert for months at a time.
I was gonna get a bunch of work done this afternoon, but I got lost on a wikibout, started with Hanson and 3 hours later i was reading about Schrödinger's cat.
by phaelen May 09, 2011
May 12 Word of the Day
When someone goes to the gym and spends 90% of the time on their phones scrolling through social media
Looks like its thumb day again for Jimmy with his usual routing... 3 sets of 5 snapchat selfies and 10 sets of scrolling through facebook until exhaustion
by Gary br April 02, 2017
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Wikibout is a term for falling down that virtual, hyper-text rabbit hole of clicking on term after term, topic after topic, on Wikipedia. You started looking up one thing and then saw something that looked interesting and clicked on it, and before you know it, three hours have passed. You went from originally reading about the history of ice cream to reading all about baseball's greatest knuckleball pitchers. With lots of stuff in between too. A classic wikibout...
by liljoint May 25, 2012