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verb, -bled, -bling, noun | 1. | to wander around in a leisurely, aimless manner: They rambled through the shops until closing time. |
| 2. | to take a course with many turns or windings, as a stream or path. |
| 3. | to grow in a random, unsystematic fashion: The vine rambled over the walls and tree trunks. |
| 4. | to talk or write in a discursive, aimless way (usually fol. by on): The speaker rambled on with anecdote after anecdote. |
| 5. | to walk aimlessly or idly over or through: They spent the spring afternoon rambling woodland paths. |
| 6. | a walk without a definite route, taken merely for pleasure. |
ramble on
Speak or write at length and with many digressions, as in As the speaker rambled on for at least two hours, the audience became restless. This idiom was first recorded in 1710.