kick the can
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See also: kick-the-can
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- A game played by children, similar to tag.
- 2003, Anne Lamott, Joe Jones, Shoemaker & Hoard Publishers,, →ISBN, page 188:
- Her house is […] in a middle-class neighborhood where kids would meet in the schoolyard on summer nights for kick the can, where Good Humor and doughnut truck men still come by.
- 2005, Dee Henderson, The Protector, Tyndale House Publishers,, →ISBN, page 96:
- "Did you ever play Kick the Can when you were a kid?"
- 2005, Mark Jonathan Harris, Come the Morning, Wayne State University Press,, →ISBN, page 52:
- "How about kick the can?" Ben suggested, spotting an empty beer can on the sidewalk.