Usually means: Flail or move wildly, uncontrollably.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (thrash about)

▸ verb:  to move unpredictably and often violently, usually unaware

Similar:
thrash, toss, convulse, thresh, slash, thresh about, hurtle, flail about, rampage, bang about, more...

Adjectives:
lash, warm, tan, mug, swack, stompy, battered, piledriving, whipsaw, dab, beat up

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Similar:
thrash, toss, convulse, thresh, slash, thresh about, hurtle, flail about, rampage, bang about, more...

Adjectives:
lash, warm, tan, mug, swack, stompy, battered, piledriving, whipsaw, dab, beat up



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