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kick the can en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) A game played by children, similar to tag.
   • "How about kick the can?" Ben suggested, spotting an empty beer can on the sidewalk. 2005, Mark Jonathan Harris, Come the Morning, Wayne State University Press,, →ISBN, page 52:
   • "Did you ever play Kick the Can when you were a kid?" 2005, Dee Henderson, The Protector, Tyndale House Publishers,, →ISBN, page 96:
   • Her house is […] in a middle-class neighborhood where kids would meet in the schoolyard on summer nights for kick the can, where Good Humor and doughnut truck men still come by. 2003, Anne Lamott, Joe Jones, Shoemaker & Hoard Publishers,, →ISBN, page 188:

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Relateds

kick the can down the road · lerky · kick at the can · carry the can

Translations (2)

fi purkki (children's game) · ja 缶蹴り (children's game)