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kicking aroundverbpresent participle of kick around to give serious and careful thought tothe board spent the afternoon kicking around the feasibility of opening an overseas office chewing over, cogitating, considering, contemplating, debating, deliberating, entertaining, eyeing(or eying), meditating, mulling (over), perpending, pondering, poring (over), questioning, revolving, ruminating, studying, thinking (about or over), turning, weighing, wrestling (with) musing (upon), reflecting (on or upon), reminiscinganalyzing, exploring, reviewingconcluding, reasoningsecond-guessing, speculating (about)brooding (about or over), dwelling (on or upon), fixating (on or upon), fretting (about or over), obsessing (about or over)believing, conceiving, opiningabsorbing, assimilating, digesting, drinking (in) beating one's brains out (about), chewing on, cudgeling one's brains (about), looking at disregarding, ignoring, overlooking, slightingdismissing, pooh-poohing(also poohing), rejecting to spend time in aimless activityI really can't do much but kick around at work until I get the rest of the submissions doodling, fiddling (around), fooling around, fribbling, goofing (around), hanging about(British), messing around, monkeying (around), playing, pottering (around), puttering (around), trifling dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, hanging (around or out), idling, loafing, lolling, loungingclowning (around), horsing arounddiddling (with), tinkering buckling (down), knuckling down, setting (to), settling (down) to spend time doing nothingspent the afternoon kicking around, while his wife bought out the mall bumming, chilling, dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, droning, footling, goofing (off), hacking (around), hanging about(British), hanging (around or out), idling, kicking back, lazing, lazying, loafing, lolling, lounging, vegging out fiddling (around), fooling, messing, monkeying, mucking, piddling, playing, pottering (around), puttering (around), triflingdozing, estivating(also aestivating), hibernatinglagging, lingering, loitering, poking, relaxing, resting, tarryingambling, moseying, sauntering, strolling, swanningfurloughing, goldbricking, malingering, truanting killing time, twiddling one's thumbs drudging, grinding, grubbing, humping, hustling, laboring, moiling, pegging, plodding, plowing, plugging, slaving, sweating, toiling, travailing, workingapplying, buckling (down)exerting, putting out to move about from place to place aimlesslyafter spending a year in Europe kicking around, the backpacker was ready to return home batting, cruising, drifting, floating, gadding (about), gallivanting(also galavanting), knocking (about), maundering, meandering, mooching, rambling, ranging, roaming, roving, traipsing, wandering ambling, sauntering, strollingdawdling, mopinggypsying, hoboing, tramping, vagabondingmilling (about or around)straggling, straying to inflict physical or emotional harm uponchildren who were raised by an alcoholic father who regularly kicked them around abusing, brutalizing, bullying, ill-treating, ill-using, maltreating, manhandling, messing over(slang), mishandling, mistreating, misusing molesting, outraging, violatingharassing, harming, hurting, injuring, oppressing, persecuting, tormenting, torturingburning, sandbagging, victimizing, wrongingbeating (up), messing (up), roughing (up), working (over) taking apart caring (for), cherishing, fostering, nurturingbabying, catering (to), coddling, favoring, gratifying, humoring, indulging, mollycoddling, pampering, spoiling |