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Definition of Kick around
1. Verb. Be around; be alive or active. "Does the old man still kick around?"
2. Verb. Treat badly; abuse. "They want to kick around the prisoners "; "They won't have me to kick around any more!"
3. Verb. Discuss lightly. "We bandied around these difficult questions"
Definition of Kick around
1. Verb. to abuse or mistreat; to bully ¹
2. Verb. to wander loose; to float around; to hang around (usually present continuous) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kick Around
Literary usage of Kick around
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hopalong Cassidy by Clarence Edward Mulford (1910)
"How can I see to shoot when you kick around like that an' fill my eyes with dirt!
... You'd kick around if somebody nicked yore ear! ..."
2. Recollections of a Rebel Reefer by James Morris Morgan (1917)
"Blit- zen was the kind of a hound dog that every one liked to kick around — she
was absolutely good for nothing, or so we all thought. ..."
3. The Social Evil in Chicago: A Study of Existing Conditions with by Chicago (Ill.). Vice Commission (1911)
""The ladies when they got money to hire servants imagine they hart some kind of
a dog to kick around, and I don't want to be kicked around. ..."
4. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1890)
"... for it is hard to come in late at night, cold, tired and hungry, and to have
to kick around and get what you can, or perhaps go to bed hungry and cold, ..."
5. Goin' Fishin': Weather and Feed Facts; the Fresh-water Game Fish; the by Carroll Blaine Cook (1920)
"... thousand young wall-eyes, swims around among them for a week or so, then starts
out with the fellows and lets his family kick around for themselves. ..."
6. Football for Player and Spectator: By Fielding H. Yost . . by Fielding Harris Yost (1905)
"This play can be used with effect when the opposing line is playing wide so as
to get through to block the kick or to stop a big kick around end. ..."
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