Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

knock around

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.33 in modern English

Syllables: knock- around
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Synonym of knock about.

Informal

Example Sentences

"I like to knock around the garden on Saturdays."
"I used to knock around with John when we were younger."
"I’ve got some scissors knocking around somewhere in the kitchen."
"It was known that he would knock his wife around when he had been drinking."
"He moved to go. / ― Well, glad to see you looking fit, he said. Meet you knocking around."
"Film-making seems to run in the family. Charlie Spencer Chaplin and my great-grandmother were siblings, and my grandad used to knock around London with Charlie when they were lads."

Etymology

From knock + around.

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

knocks around (present, singular) knocking around (participle, present) knocked around (participle, past) knocked around (past)

Derived Forms

knockaround

Synonyms

knock about

Questions

What does knock around mean?: Synonym of knock about.
Where does knock around come from?: From knock + around.

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