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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : nok |
| Phonetic Transcription : nɒk |
Definition of knocking back
Origin :- Old English cnocian (West Saxon cnucian), "to pound, beat; knock (on a door)," likely of imitative origin. Meaning "deprecate, put down" is from 1892. Related: Knocked; knocking. Knock-kneed first attested 1774. Knock-down, drag-out is from 1827. Command knock it off "stop it" is first recorded 1880, perhaps from auctioneer's term for "dispose of quickly:"
- At the commencement of the sales, he gave every one that wanted to purchase a paper containing a description of the lands that were to be sold; and, as the sales were cried, he called over the numbers and described the land; and when it got up to one dollar and a quarter an acre, if no body bid, after it was cried two or three times, he would say, knock it off, knock it off. [U.S. Senate record, 1834]
- As in guzzle : verb drink down fast
- I had forgotten Charon and his boat and the agonized faces of the people whom he is knocking back with his oar.
- Extract from : « Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life » by Mary Alsop King Waddington
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