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knock around

• travel without a specific purpose.
• "for a couple of years she and I knocked around the Mediterranean"
Similar: wander, roam, rove, range, travel, travel idly, journey, voyage, globetrot, drift, coast, meander, gad about, gallivant, jaunt, take a trip, go on a trip, ramble, stroll, saunter, maunder, amble, traipse, dawdle, potter, traverse, travel round, roam around, range over, peregrinate, perambulate, vagabond,
• injure or damage someone or something by rough treatment.
• "the first couple of rounds of treatment knocked me around a bit"
Similar: beat up, beat, batter, strike, hit, punch, thump, thrash, smack, slap, cuff, buffet, pummel, belabour, maltreat, mistreat, abuse, ill-treat, ill-use, treat roughly, assault, attack, maul, manhandle, injure, damage, cause injury to, hurt, harm, wound, bruise, beat up on, rough up, do over, lay into, lace into, give someone a hiding, clobber, clout, bash, belt, whack, wallop, sock, plug, deck, smite,


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