kid around
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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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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 ScottHaven'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. HenryOh, 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