kick around

plural kick arounds · alternative kickaround · alternative kick-around

1. An informal game of football, rugby or similar sports.

present singular third person kicks around · participle present kicking around · participle past kicked around · past kicked around · alternative kickaround · alternative kick-around

1. To abuse or mistreat; to bully; to be rough with.

   Don't be afraid to kick it around a little. It is sturdy.

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   I leave you gentlemen now, and you will write it. You will interpret. That’s your right. But as I leave you I want you to know—just think how much you’re going to be missing. You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because gentlemen, this is my last press conference, and it will be the one in which I have welcomed the opportunity to test wits with you. […]

   1962 November 7, Richard Nixon, “Richard Nixon's November 1962 Press Conference”, in Richard Nixon Foundation

2. continuativepresentusuallyTo wander loose; to float around; to hang around; to exist; to remain unexploited or unused.

   Is this your pen I found kicking around in my drawer?

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   Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown

   1973 March 1, Roger Waters, “Time”, in The Dark Side of the Moon, performed by Pink Floyd

3. To discuss informally; to consider or distribute.

   to kick around ideas

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   They kicked around some ideas for doing their own thing, like moonlighting as music video producers, but they never followed through.

   2023 October 19, Brendan I. Koerner, “Watch This Guy Work, and You’ll Finally Understand the TikTok Era”, in Wired, →ISSN