Kickabout

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An informal amateur game of football/soccer.

    "Some kids were having a kickabout on the grass beside the walkway, cheering, groaning, calling for the ball, absorbed in the game, a self-contained universe marked out by jackets for goalposts and invisible touchlines."

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"Some kids were having a kickabout on the grass beside the walkway, cheering, groaning, calling for the ball, absorbed in the game, a self-contained universe marked out by jackets for goalposts and invisible touchlines."

Etymology

From kick + about.

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