to drive around
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2.6
- phrasal verb
- /draɪv əˈraʊnd/
:
dar una vuelta en coche
- Yesterday, I hired a taxi driver to drive me around for an hour.
- drove around town
- drove around the city
- drove around the block
He would ask my children to drive them around.
- He would ask my children to drive them around.
- So you play Al Cowlings and you're driving OJ Simpson around in the back of his Ford Bronco.
- That's like, get him to drive you around, girl.
- But Prairie Home Companion, when I would drive my kids around, I would always threaten them if they acted up in the car.
- He used to load us onto an RV and drive us around the country to show us how great this nation is.
Examples
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I can drive her around.
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- I just want to drive around a little so we can talk.
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Or we could just drive around for the hell of it, for fun, you know?
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Maybe one of your friends can drive you around instead of you driving them around all the time.
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Finally, they drive around the streets looking for her, up one, down another.
Fiction book (1998) -
We drove around with her.
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"But now I'll drive you around a bit before we go home.
Fiction book (1994) -
In the spring of her junior year, I took a week off and drove her around to the eastern schools.
Fiction book (2001) -
And tomorrow we can drive all around town and discover which hotel she's staying at.
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On weekends, we like to drive around the countryside and explore new places.
Synonyms
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1.9
To go for a short drive to have fun and relax
12
4.1
To drive slowly around an area without a specific destination
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6.0
To drive someone in a private car for pay
2
7.7
Move around with no set place to go for fun
How Leisurely
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to drive a vehicle without any particular destination' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'drive' (to operate a vehicle) with the locative/area particle 'around' indicating movement within an area. This motion-verb + particle composition is common in English and cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Drive around comes from the simple image of a car trip where the parts drive and around mean the driver moves the car around a place while a passenger looks at sights. So it means 'to take someone on a trip or show them places of interest'.