knockout
/ˈnɒkaʊt
/noun
1An act of knocking someone out, especially in boxing: [as modifier]: a knockout blow...
- Lewis, who has not fought since his eighth-round knockout of Mike Tyson last June, insists he will be ready.
- Calderon focused more on movement and avoiding a knockout punch, and did not mount the same body attack he had previously.
- Had Ali fought anyone except Joe Frazier that night, he would have been a knockout winner.
Synonyms
stunning blow, finishing blow;
French coup de grâce
informal KO, kayo
1.1 informal An extremely attractive or impressive person or thing: he must have been a knockout when he was young...
- The service remains professional, quick and highly knowledgeable, but the menu seems less sexy and, while the dishes are interesting, there are few real knockouts.
- It's definitely not an attractive look for a supposedly irresistible knockout, even though she has the necessary figure.
- When he was voted Sexiest Man Alive earlier this year, People magazine gushed: ‘Suave and sophisticated, caring and kind, he's also a total knockout - and a one-woman man.
Synonyms
beauty, vision, picture, sensation, joy to behold, dream
informal stunner, dish, looker, good-looker, lovely, peach, eyeful, smasher, cracker
masterpiece, sensation, marvel, wonder, triumph, winner, success, feat, coup, master stroke;
smash hit, hit, attraction;
French tour de force, coup de maître
informal smasher, cracker
2British A tournament in which the loser in each round is eliminated.The men will be split into four pools of four with the top two from each group going through to the quarter-finals, from where it will be a straight knockout tournament....
- Not until this tournament gets to the knockout quarter-final stages will the real competition get under way.
- This summer, Europe's top clubs have strengthened their sides in a way that should pay dividends when the crucial knockout matches come round in late-February and March.
Synonyms
elimination match, tie, elimination competition
