Knock around

I like to knock around the garden on Saturdays.

I used to knock around with John when we were younger.

I’ve got some scissors knocking around somewhere in the kitchen.

It was known that he would knock his wife around when he had been drinking.

He moved to go. / ― Well, glad to see you looking fit, he said. Meet you knocking around.

Film-making seems to run in the family. Charlie Spencer Chaplin and my great-grandmother were siblings, and my grandad used to knock around London with Charlie when they were lads.

And Sylvia Beach, a fellow American and the fearless publisher of Ulysses, was still knocking around Paris willing to entertain questions.