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Meanings of knock about in anglès

portuguès
arrombar
català
copejar fort
espanyol
zarandear

Strike against forcefully.

copejar fort

Be around; be alive or active.

Sinònims
Examples for "kick around"
Examples for "kick around"
1
But just as often, skeuomorphs kick around long past the point of reason.
Wired
2
Fact: Sanders looks a lot less appealing without Hillary Clinton to kick around.
The Guardian
3
He's confident that American forces can kick around any insurgents they find there.
Wired
4
In Irrational man, Woody Allen seems content to kick around the basic argument.
Radio NZ
5
Pretty soon, it's likely that we won't have Atari to kick around anymore.
Wired
1
He will then stretch his limbs and kick about with perfect glee.
Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children
2
Does that suit you, or have you got something to kick about?
Rolling Stones
3
But what have you fellows out here got to kick about?
O Pioneers!
4
If they make a kick about it they put themselves in the sorehead class.
Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore
5
You'd much better- 'whenhe gave a blood-piercingscream, and began to kick about.
The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure S...
Usage of knock about in anglès
1
Rough and knock about for a while, and then rest up somewhere.
The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke
2
I suppose because he likes to ' knock about,' as you call it.
The Half-Hearted
3
It's just as well you haven't to knock about in the world, then.
Winding Paths
4
He sha'n't send his fellows here to knock about the things.
Bristol Bells: A Story of the Eighteenth Century
5
So you may as well come and knock about a little.
To-morrow?
6
It's a handy thing to know, when you knock about like I've done.'
My Antonia
7
He can knock about, and live from hand to mouth.
The Golden Fleece: A Romance
8
You'd want to knock about a bit in the world.
Dubliners
9
So she has to knock about with me all day, which is awful slow.
Roger Ingleton, Minor
10
I've been gathering support for it as I knock about.
Whirligigs
11
So I had much leisure to knock about in.
In Those Days: The Story of an Old Man
12
I do a little work, as I knock about.
The great lover
13
This year I'll knock about a hundred and eighty billion productive hours out of human society.
Year Zero
14
To knock about and to be knocked about.
The Heavenly Twins
15
Dan found the selection pretty slow-sohe told Mother-andthought he would knock about a bit.
On Our Selection
16
How could I have kept him with me if I had to knock about in towns?
Within the Tides: Tales
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Translations for knock about
portuguès
arrombargolpear
Knock about through the time
Knock about across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common