knock around (sth)
informal UK also knock about (sth)— phrasal verb with knock uk/nɒk/us/nɑːk/verb
to be in a place that is not exactly known or in various places especially over a long period of time:
I'm sure I've got a copy of "Lolita" knocking around somewhere.
He spent years knocking around the Far East before the First World War.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Present
- all over somewhere idiom
- anywhere
- appearance
- attendance
- attendant
- be in at the kill idiom
- front
- here
- immanent
- in the flesh idiom
- kick
- kick around
- kill
- presence
- present
- sit
- sit in
- sit through sth
- synchronic
- to sb's face idiom
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