kickabout

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English

Etymology

From kick +‎ about.

Noun

kickabout (plural kickabouts)

  1. An informal amateur game of football/soccer.
    • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 107:
      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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