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Knockabout
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- 1 Boisterous not-comparable
"I like the way Ana Sophia Scheller — replacing the injured Ashley Bouder — doesn’t exaggerate the ballet’s second lead woman, but Ms. Bouder’s blend of knockabout comedy and physical brilliance is missed."
- 2 Suitable for rough use. not-comparable
"I have a knockabout cello for non-concert gigs."
- 1 suitable for rough use wordnet
- 2 full of rough and exuberant animal spirits wordnet
- 1 Clothing suitable for rough use.
- 2 a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit wordnet
- 3 A worker habitually engaged in casual employment.
"We'd had a couple of knockabouts to help with the cooking and stockyard work. They were paid by the job. They were to stay at the camp for a week, to burn the gunyahs, knock down the yard, and blind the track as much as they could."
- 4 A person living in rough, violent conditions.
"They denounced the peasant's passions as animal lusts and complained that vagabonds and knockabouts were "generally given to horrible uncleanness. They have not particular w1ves, neither do they range themselves into families, but consort together as beasts."
- 5 A tumbler.
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- 6 A slapstick comedian or comedy.
- 7 A small sailboat lacking a bowsprit, of a type found primarily in the Massachusetts area.
"We sailed our knockabout around Cape Cod."
- 8 An act of playing a sport casually or informally. informal
"The kids had a knockabout with a football in the backyard."
Etymology
Deverbal from knock about.
Deverbal from knock about.
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