knock around
phrasal verbknock around…
(British English also knock about…)
(informal)- to travel and live in various places
- He spent a few years knocking around Europe.
- used to say that something is in a place but you do not know exactly where
- It must be knocking around here somewhere.
knock somebody/something around
(British English also knock somebody/something about)
- (informal) to hit somebody/something repeatedly; to treat somebody/something roughly
- Her boyfriend had been knocking her about.