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Knock About pronunciation in English

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Knock About

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Verb

1. batter, buffet, knock about

strike against forcefully

Example Sentences:
'Winds buffeted the tent'

2. kick about, kick around, knock about

be around; be alive or active

Example Sentences:
'Does the old man still kick around?'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Knock About

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verb
1. (intr, adverb)
to wander about aimlessly
2. (intr, preposition)
to travel about, esp as resulting in varied or exotic experience
he's knocked about the world a bit
3. (intr, adverb; foll by with)
to associate
to knock about with a gang
4. (tr, adverb)
to treat brutally
he knocks his wife about
5. (tr, adverb)
to consider or discuss informally
to knock an idea about
noun knockabout
6. 
a sailing vessel, usually sloop-rigged, without a bowsprit and with a single jib
adjective knockabout
7. 
rough; boisterous
knockabout farce

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Knock About

see synonyms of knock about
1. 
to wander about; roam
2. 
to treat roughly

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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