kid around

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

Example Sentences

“When a goat finds itself between a rock and a hard place, our firefighters don’t kid around!”

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Had armed men followed this kid around?

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Danvers enjoys pushing the kid around as she molds him into a – you can say it out loud– true detective.

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Certain parents didn’t think they could trust any other kid around their little prince or princess.

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He is not the soul of patience — who could be, with such a tetchy grown kid around the house? — but he is not going anywhere.

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