kid around

Idioms and Phrases

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

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

From Salon

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

From Literature

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.

From New York Times

Green said he still carries that kid around with him — the boy in cubicle who guided his way through a recent trilogy of updated “Halloween” movies that surprised fans and box-office expectations alike.

From Los Angeles Times

I was riding around my neighborhood when I was a kid, around like 9.

From Los Angeles Times