"knock around" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From knock + around.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "knocks around",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knocking around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knocked around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knocked around",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "noun"
          ],
          "word": "knockaround"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I like to knock around the garden on Saturdays.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "I used to knock around with John when we were younger.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "I’ve got some scissors knocking around somewhere in the kitchen.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "It was known that he would knock his wife around when he had been drinking.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5: Lotus Eaters]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 72:",
          "text": "He moved to go. / ― Well, glad to see you looking fit, he said. Meet you knocking around.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 December 1, “Stop & Examine”, in Rail, number 945, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 71:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Synonym of knock about"
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Synonym of knock about"
      ],
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            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "knock about"
        }
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      "tags": [
        "informal"
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  "word": "knock around"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "noun"
      ],
      "word": "knockaround"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From knock + around.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "knocks around",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knocking around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knocked around",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "knocked around",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "I used to knock around with John when we were younger.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "I’ve got some scissors knocking around somewhere in the kitchen.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "It was known that he would knock his wife around when he had been drinking.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5: Lotus Eaters]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 72:",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 December 1, “Stop & Examine”, in Rail, number 945, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 71:",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of knock about"
      ],
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        "(informal) Synonym of knock about"
      ],
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          "word": "knock about"
        }
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  "word": "knock around"
}