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knock around
verb- to spend time with no fixed abode; to travel about as an itinerant AUSTRALIA, 1901
- Hell, I reckon I could tell you things you never heard of and you’re a bloke has knocked around. — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 120, 1969
- Well, all I can say is that I’ve knocked around the traps and I’ve lived in Australia man and boy for donkey’s years, and in all that time nobody’s every tried to slip their pollywaffle up my doughnut. — Barry Humphries, The Traveller’s Tool, p. 19, 1985
- to spend time; to idle US, 1846
- Knocking around with Rapp the the Rhythm Kings put the finishing touches on me and straightened me out. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 53, 1946
- She’s knocking around with a bookmaker or a toff from up on the Hill or something. — Frank Hardy, The Outcasts of Foolgarah, p. 15, 1971
- Brothers and sisters, before I joined the Army I was a sinner. I smoked, I drank, I swore and I knocked around with bad wimmen. — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 137, 1979
- Not long afterwards, Arnie and I were out walking and just sort of knocking around the streets and, being near 16th Street where she lived, we visited her. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 173, 1980
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