"kick-the-can" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1994, Richard Powers, Operation Wandering Soul, HarperCollins, page 232",
          "text": "Each syllable, screamed by a hysteric caller in the world's last round of kick-the-can.",
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          "ref": "2003, Dorothy Lilja Harrison, A Better Tomorrow?, iUniverse, page 70",
          "text": "And because few families could afford cars anymore, the alley was a safe place to play Captain-May-I?, kick-the-can, and bounce-out.",
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          "ref": "2004, Yongsoo Park, Las Cucarachas, Akashic, page 7",
          "text": "If we were playing kick-the-can, it'd get everyone out of jail and make life hell for whoever's \"it.\"",
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        "A game played by children, similar to tag, where tagged players are freed if an untagged player manages to kick over a discarded tin can etc. set up for this purpose."
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