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Meanings of kick about in English

Be around; be alive or active.

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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
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?
Usage of kick about in English
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...
6
He looked up, saw Paco towering over him and another kick about to be delivered.
Stinger
7
Do you suppose I'm going to kick about it?
In Exile, and Other Stories
8
That girl of yours is a good girl, John; too good to kick about the prairie.
The Story of the Foss River Ranch: A Tale of the Northwest
9
Don't kick about the old name before Momsy.
Janice Day, the Young Homemaker
10
But I made a merry little hell for you too, and you don't kick about it.
K
11
While you are energetic you will kick about and then you will come back to this.
The Research Magnificent
12
So what have you got to kick about?
Death angel
13
Cody didn't give a kick about Sonny Crowfield.
Stinger
14
Another 18-year-old to have had a kick about in a match situation is Bidvest Wits' Rowan Human.
The South African
15
Three weeks before the bomb he and his brother were having a kick about outside Cardiff Arms Park.
The Irish Times
16
When he drew near the horses, they began to jump and kick about, then to scream with terror.
Dracula's Guest
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