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Definition of Kick about
1. Verb. Be around; be alive or active. "Does the old man still kick around?"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kick About
Literary usage of Kick about
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1904)
"The limbs now free in the water kick about and at times the abdomen contracts
and since its tip is fast within the shell the result is that the body is ..."
2. Memories of Eton and Etonians: Including My Life at Eton, 1854-1863, and by Alfred Lubbock, Robin. Lubbock (1899)
"... and the Eleven —The matches of the season—No Harrow match—Fishing— Lower-boy
cricket—" Aquatics "—Football—The wall game —" kick about"—" Shinning. ..."
3. The Windsor Magazine (1905)
"WHAT you got to kick about? Ain't your limbs all good an' stout ? Ain't you got
two big, ... Let's sit down an' figger out What you've got to kick about. ..."
4. A Zulu-English Dictionary with Notes on Pronunciation: With Notes on by Alfred T. Bryant (1905)
"found in his path; kick about, 'send flying about', as boys a football; kick
about or let fly the legs, as a child when struggling, or swinging from a tree ..."
5. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1892)
"That has always been one of the great things we have had to kick about at these
... have only heard two men kick about the Windsor since we have been here, ..."
6. Bulletin of Pharmacy (1918)
"Why should any man kick about that? It's just as good as it ever was with me,
... "So, as I say, I don't see anything to kick about—and if I did I'm ..."
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