bat along
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bat along
To wander aimlessly; to move about from place to place. I doubt he has a job—he's been batting along out on the West Coast for a while now. He wound the mechanical toy up and watched it bat along all on its own. A: "Where were you?" B: "Oh, just batting along downtown, lost in my thoughts."
See also: bat
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