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单词 knockabout
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knockabout

/ˈnɒkəbaʊt /
adjective
1Denoting rough, slapstick comedy.The mood can shift from knockabout comedy to taut thriller in a heartbeat, which keeps the viewer from becoming complacent: One never knows what the film is going to do next....
  • It takes something close to idiocy to think that Shaw's comedy Arms and the Man can be played as knockabout farce.
  • If this sounds like an unlikely subject for knockabout comedy, it is, but Booker prize winner DBC Pierre almost pulls it off.
2(Of clothes) suitable for rough use.
noun
1A rough, slapstick comic performance.Now, at one level this is all harmless political knockabout....
  • It is a fairy tale with links at various points to The Magic Flute, though there is less knockabout and more gentle humour in Henze's comedy.
  • Behind the day's knockabout lay serious politicking over both policy and personalities.
2US A tramp.
3Australian /NZ A farm or station handyman.As the film opens, Jake Gyllenhaal's Jack and Heath Ledger's Ennis are two ordinary-enough knockabouts hired to herd sheep in Wyoming in the summer of 1963.
4North American A small yacht or dinghy.
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