knock around
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
knock around (third-person singular simple present knocks around, present participle knocking around, simple past and past participle knocked around)
- (informal) Synonym of knock about
- I like to knock around the garden on Saturdays.
- I used to knock around with John when we were younger.
- I’ve got some scissors knocking around somewhere in the kitchen.
- It was known that he would knock his wife around when he had been drinking.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5: Lotus Eaters]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 72:
- He moved to go. / ― Well, glad to see you looking fit, he said. Meet you knocking around.
- 2021 December 1, “Stop & Examine”, in Rail, number 945, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 71:
- Film-making seems to run in the family. Charlie Spencer Chaplin and my great-grandmother were siblings, and my grandad used to knock around London with Charlie when they were lads.
Derived terms[edit]
- knockaround (noun)