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Engage in good-humored fooling, joking, or teasing. For example, He's always kidding around with the other boys. [First half of 1900s]

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Words nearby kid around

kick up one's heels, kick upstairs, kickwheel, kicky, kid, kid around, Kidd, Kidd, Captain William, kidder, Kidderminster, kiddie car
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Words related to kid around

annoy, badger, bait, banter, bother, chaff, disturb, dog, fool around, give a hard time, goad, harass, josh, lead on, mock, needle, nudge, pester, pick on, rag

How to use kid around in a sentence

  • Now you send the kid around and I'll let him bust things here for a while.

    To Him That Hath|Leroy Scott

  • Haven't seen a bow-legged, dirty-faced little devil of a six-year-old lost kid around here anywhere, have you?

    The Four Million|O. Henry

  • Oh, boy, I just grabbed that kid around the neck, till I could feel his curly head right tight close to me.

    Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels|Percy Keese Fitzhugh
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