Knock About

Definitions: Knock About

Knock About

Verb

1. Strike against forcefully; "Winds buffeted the tent".

2. Be around; be alive or active; "Does the old man still kick around?".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Knock About

Crosswords: Knock About

Expression using "knock about": To knock about. Additional references.

Albanian

i zhurmshëm (clamorous, loud, loudmouthed, obstreperous, roaring, robustious, roistering, rumbustious, tumultuary, tumultuous, uproarious, vocal, vociferous), i rëndë (arduous, artless, awkward, bad, bulky, burdensome, cubbish, cumbersome, cumbrous, dead, difficile, elephantine, grave, grievous, grinding, hard, heavy, hefty, incondite, leaden, lumping, massive, oafish, onerous, peremptory, plodding, ponderous, portly, serious, set up, severe, solemn, stertorous, stodgy, tricky, unwieldy, wakeless, weighty), i potershëm (jazz, obstreperous, rackety, rambunctious, rowdy, thundering, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous), anije e vogël me vela. (various references)

Arabic 

‏تجول (gallivant, get about, move, peddle, ramble, stroll, swag, tour, wander, wandering). (various references)

Bulgarian 

очуквам (crush, hammer, hew, lay flat). (various references)

French

violent, vagabonder, farce, clown, bourlinguer, atroce. (various references)

German

verprügeln (bash, baste, batter, batter about, beat up, bludgeon, knock around, lambaste, pelt, slog, strap, thrash, thwack, to baste, to lambaste, to slog, to trounce, trounce, wallop), schlagen (bang, bash, bat, batter about, beat, belt, best, biff, birch, blast, break, Bury, capture, chime, clang, clout, defeat, fell, flap, flog, hack out, hit, kick, kill, knock, knock around, knock out, lap, lash, mint, outride, Pat, pound, pounding, pummel, punch, punching, rattle, rattling, sing, slap, slash, slat, smack, smite, spank, stricken, strike, swat, take, throb, thump, thwack, to bang, to bash, to batter, to blast, to knock (at), to rap, to slap, trim, wallop, wash, whip, whip up, whisk), ramponieren (bash about, knock around, ruin), herumziehen (knock around, wander, wander about), herumliegen (knock around, lie about, lie around), beschädigen (blemish, bruise, chip, damage, deface, injure, knock around, Mar, Mark, maul, nip, spoil, spoilt, strip, to damage, to injure). (various references)

Greek 

στραπατσάρω (mess up), περιπλανώμαι (gander, jaunt, meander, ramble, roam, rove, tramp, wander), τριγυρίζω (go about, look round, mill, prowl, saunter, wander). (various references)

Hungarian

kóborol (divagate, meander, roam, to be on the hike, to knock about the world, to maunder, to maverick, to ramble, to range, to rove, to straggle, to stroll, to trollop about), könnyelmű életet él (to knock about, to knock around), léha életet él (to knock about, to knock around), bolyong a világban (to knock about the world), bolyong (loiter, to knock about, to knock around, to meander, traipse, wander), összever (beat up, maul, to knock about, to total). (various references)

Indonesian

sehari-hari (daily, routine). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

痛めつける (to give a good shaking, to knock about, to rebuke, to taunt), 痛め付ける (to give a good shaking, to knock about, to rebuke, to taunt). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いためつける (to give a good shaking, to knock about, to rebuke, to taunt). (various references)

Manx

jannoo drogh-ymmyd jeh (abuse), cur drogh ymmyd da. (various references)

Pig Latin

ockknay aboutay

Portuguese

injuriar (abuse, attack, insult, inveigh, knock around, miscall, offend, outrage, revile, slander, stab, vituperate), criticar (animadvert, assail, attack, carp, censure, clapperclaw, comment, complain, criticize, faultfinder, impeach, land on, review, slash, vet), bater repetidamente (beat, cob, knock around), andar por aqui e por ali (knock around), agredir (assault, attack, commit aggression, knock around). (various references)

Romanian

umbla prin lume, umbla hai-hui (loaf, lop about), umbla creanga, sta uitat de multã vreme, rãtãci prin lume, maltrata (abuse, bedevil, ill treat, ill use, maltreat, maul, mishandle, mistreat, misuse), lovi întruna, izbi întruna, iaht mic, duce o viaţã destrãbãlatã, duce o viaţã de dezmãţ. (various references)

Russian 

шумный (hilarious, noisy, obstreperous, rackety, roaring, robustious, roistering, rowdy, rumbustious, tumultuous, uproarious, vociferous), актер (actor, playactor, play-actor, player, protagonist, trouper), бродячий (down-and-out, nomad, nomadic, rambling, rangy, strolling, wandering), дорожный (highway, road, travelers, travellers, viatic). (various references)

Spanish

vagabundear (be on the pad, pad, tramp), ser vagabundo (vagabondize), rodar (live up, roll, roll about, roll along, rotate, run in, trundle, wheel), pegar (affix, attach, beat, beat up on, belt, catch, cement, fasten, give, glue, hang, have, hit, Lam, live through, paste, paste up, plug, post, pump, put up, roam, sew, sew on, slap, slosh, slug, smack, sock, stick, stick down, stick on, stick together, strike, swipe, tag on, take, thrash, tie on, touch, trounce, welt), marchar vagando, maltratar (abuse, bang about, batter about, ill treat, ill use, maltreat, manhandle, maul, mishandle, mistreat, misuse, pull about, punish), ir de vagabundo, aporrear (bang, bang away, beat, beat up, blackjack, bludgeon, clobber, club, cosh, cudgel, pommel, pound, pound on, pummel, slog, slug, thrash, thump, thwack, whack), andar vagabundo. (various references)

Swedish

vandra omkring (kick about, kick around, perambulate, Swan), prata igenom, misshandla (ill treat, ill use, ill-treat, maltreat, maul, misuse, rough up), hålla ihop (bond, clip, keep together), diskutera (argue, debate, discuss, dispute, reason, talk, talk over). (various references)

Thai

เตะสะเปะสะปะ (kick about, kick around), ไม่ไ�"้รับความสนใจ (kick about, kick around). (various references)

Turkish

kaba davranmak (give smb. gyp, knock around, rough handle, snap at smb.), sert davranmak (knock around, treat harsly, whale), hırpalamak (batter, beat up, bruise, ill treat, ill use, jolt, knock around, maltreat, maul, misuse, punish, ruffle, work over, worry), gezmek (browse around, get about, go about, hike, itinerate, jaunt, knock around, perambulate, peregrinate, promenade, range, rove, tour, travel, visit, walk, wander, wander in), göze çarpmamak (knock around), dövmek (bash up, baste, batter, beat, beat out, beat up, belabor, belabour, Bray, bruise, cane, castigate, chastise, club, cudgel, drub, dust smb.'s jacket, flail, flog, forge, give a beating, give smb. a thrashing, give the stick, hammer, hide, knock around, Lam, lam into, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay in, lay into, lick, Mall, maul, pelt, pound, punish, scutch, slog, sock, spifflicate, spiflicate, swage, swinge, tan, thrash, thwack, trounce, wallop, whale, whip, whop), çıkmak (ascend, break out, break through, climb, come about, come off, come on, come out, come to a head, come up, crop out, date, date up, detach, drop out, emanate, emerge, erupt, escalate, eventuate, exit, extricate oneself, extrude, flirt, get off, go for, go forth, go off, go out, go together, go with, grow out of, grow up, hatch, have it's source in, issue, jut, jut out, keep company with, knock around, launch, launch out, move out, occur, originate, peep, peep out, photograph, point, present oneself, prove, puff out, puff up, pull out, pullulate, quit, rise, rub off, rub out, sally forth, sally out, secede, separate, shoot out, spoon, spring, stem, step out, step up, stick, stick out, take it's source from, take out, take to, walk out, walk out of, walk out with, well forth, work out). (various references)

Ukranian 

тинятися (dangle, expatiate, fool about, gad, go about, hack around, knock around, maroon, muck about, putter, roam, scamp, sling about, slouch about, slouch along, slouch around, traipse, wait about, wait around), вештатися (gad, gad about, hang about, hover, knock around). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: knockabout.

-2 letters: knockout.

-3 letters: backout, cutbank, outback.

-4 letters: bouton, cobnut, toucan, untack.

-5 letters: aboon, about, bacon, banco, baton, bucko, bunco, bunko, canto, conto, cotan, count, knack, knock, knout, octan, taboo, tabun.

+1 letter: knockabouts.

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