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vb. (present participle of knock about English)
Usage examples of "knocking about".
The courtiers almost collapsed with envy: ever since His Majesty had instituted his custom of knocking about his favorites, no one had ever before had the honor of being knocked about as much as Candide.
The man busied himself knocking about pots and pans in a steaming wash basin and talking to the girls.
Working for him and learning the Big Secret would be infinitely preferable to knocking about in dark cellars, conversing with fractured wobbly men and having to impersonate a dullard.
I hardly know which is myself and which the butcher, we are always in such a tangle and tussle, knocking about upon the trodden grass.
She wouldn't have minded any more than the rest of the knocking about I gave her.
Timberlane, as you'd know if you hadn't been knocking about in London for so long.