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knock about

verb as in roam

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Example Sentences

We have tastes in common; for instance, we do not like knock-about brothers at a music-hall—they bore us.

Certainly Edward Pierson shrank from the rough touches of a knock-about philosophy.

He has collected his knock-about money, his shearing, and his harvest money about the end of January.

There's a knock-about pantomime outfit at the Canterbury—Martinetti I think the name is—that's damned good.

Jones brought me home on that neat little knock-about spad he's just bought.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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