kick the can noun2 •A game played by children, similar to tag.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 •A game played by children, similar to tag, where tagged players are freed if an untagged player manages to kick over a discarded tin can etc. set up for this purpose.Each syllable, screamed by a hysteric caller in the world's last round of kick-the-can. — 1994
