Antonyms for knock back
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : nok |
| Phonetic Transcription : nÉ’k |
Definition of knock 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
- There was only one ship in the galaxy that could knock back a blip that big at such a distance.
- Extract from : « The Misplaced Battleship » by Harry Harrison (AKA Henry Maxwell Dempsey)
- Now I don't want to knock back at your country, Mrs. Tasker, but it seems to me that's the English character.
- Extract from : « A Crooked Mile » by Oliver Onions
Synonyms for knock back
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