to kick around

Examples

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• For several months in late 2002 and early 2003, a bill known as Amber Alert had been kicking around Congress.

  Academic text (2005)

• Keegan Boone Bryan kicked around Nashville for the better part of a decade, performing solo and as the frontman with country-rockers Plowboy.

  Blog text (34)

• And, hey, you still got me to kick around.

  Starship Troopers (1997)

• I kick around from stupid job to job.

  Small Time Crooks (2000)

• I've been kicking around here for two days' time already.

  Short Circuit 2 (1988)

• When we first signed Katy, she had been kind of kicking around for a couple of years.

  Katy Perry: Part of Me (2012)

• Board members agreed to further study the recommendations, including the 9-12 high school, an idea that Clegg said has been kicking around the district for several years.

  Blog text (1)

• I'd encourage anyone who finds this question kicking around in the back of their mind to check out The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium (by Robert Lacey).

  Blog text (24)

• But so long as the Dems have the filibuster to kick around, they have a handy scapegoat on which to blame their failure to enact policies that are more robustly populist.

  Blog text (29)

• Despite facing many challenges, he has been kicking around in the business world for over twenty years.

Synonyms

K

to knock about

vsto kick around

• UK

1 8.2

To still be around in a place or situation

survive notably long or despite hardship rather than being merely ordinary

K

to kick about

vsto kick around

• UK

8.3

To stay alive or active when people think you will not

last long despite difficulties rather than merely against expectation

Antonyms

D

to die

∞ 1.0

To stop living and no longer be alive

How Alive

to thrive

233 3.2

to kick around

• Informal

2 7.1

to survive

∞ 2.7

to die

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology