kickabout
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
kickabout (plural kickabouts)
- 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.