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knock about
verb- to be around AUSTRALIA, 1889
- There were a few clouds knocking about yestiddy, but this wind has cooked their chances. — Miles Franklin, My Career Goes Bung, p. 213, 1946
- Hey, darl, is there any of that Golden Syrup knockin’ about the cupboards? — Barry Dickins, What the Dickins, p. 51, 1985
- to wander without purpose and without a home TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1904
- Listen, you’ve knocked about. You know there are bad types of men everywhere. — D’Arcy Niland, The Shiralee, p. 61, 1955
- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
- to beat someone UK, 1926
- Josephine Brand was a slender, extremely pretty girl with two brothers, one older, one younger, who knocked her about. — The Guardian, 8 May 2004
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