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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : nok-uh-bout |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈnɒk əˌbaʊt |
Definition of knockabout
- adj rough
- His life was a tragedy written in the terms of knockabout farce.
- Extract from : « The Moon and Sixpence » by W. Somerset Maugham
- I present the idea, for what it may be worth, to the concoctors of knockabout turns.
- Extract from : « The Angel and the Author - and Others » by Jerome K. Jerome
- As I said when I first came here, I have been a sort of a knockabout, a wanderer.
- Extract from : « Ralph on the Overland Express » by Allen Chapman
- The two best rigs for this class of boat are the cat and knockabout.
- Extract from : « On Yachts and Yacht Handling » by Thomas Fleming Day
- Herring and Phyllis could be seen hoisting the sails on the knockabout.
- Extract from : « The Seven Darlings » by Gouverneur Morris
- Father gave me a knockabout two years ago, and I've had lots of fun in her.
- Extract from : « The Bachelors » by William Dana Orcutt
- "I thought I'd take him out in the knockabout," Roger suggested.
- Extract from : « Flood Tide » by Sara Ware Bassett
- I laugh at the knockabout brothers, I confess, so long as they are on the stage; but they do not convince me.
- Extract from : « The Angel and the Author - and Others » by Jerome K. Jerome
- I suppose a knockabout like myself gets all the taste for the fine arts knocked out of him.
- Extract from : « A Frontier Mystery » by Bertram Mitford
- If all was as I hardly dared to hope, I would give up my present knockabout life, and take a good farm somewhere and settle down.
- Extract from : « A Frontier Mystery » by Bertram Mitford
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