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kick around (or about)1(Of a thing) lie unwanted or unexploited: the idea has been kicking around for over a year...- Those pics are nearly 10 years old, they were kicking about on the net months ago.
- Working in a bank, it's odd to see that people still have old notes and coins kicking about which they bring in from time to time to exchange.
- That debate's been kicking around for decades now.
1.1(Of a person) drift idly from place to place: I kicked around picking up odd jobs...- It is a second career for both of them: trained in horticulture, the Whittles went abroad in their late twenties, kicking around for five years before settling down on Vancouver Island, Canada.
- Kelly Willis has kicked around record labels nearly as much as her family kicked around the country while she was growing up.
- Meantime, he kicks around 13th Street, living in an apartment above the newsstand.
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