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knockabout
I. \ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ adjective
Etymology: knock about
1. : designed or suitable for rough or casual informal use
< knockabout clothing >
< a knockabout travel valise >
2.
a. : noisy and rough : boisterously violent
< was especially fond of knockabout games >
< knockabout diversions >
b. : marked by, given to, or skilled at boisterously funny antics and farce and often extravagant burlesque or slapstick
< a knockabout film comedy >
< a knockabout vaudeville act >
< knockabout comedians in baggy pants — Time >
3. : marked by or given to irregular, haphazard, or aimless wandering about : traveling about carelessly or like a vagrant : roaming
< are afraid the place is full of knockabout single men — O.E.Rölvaag >
II. noun
(-s)
Etymology: partly from knockabout (I); partly from knock about
1.
a.
(1) : a performer of knockabout comedy
< a couple of vaudeville knockabouts >
(2) : a performance or instance of knockabout comedy
< a grave ceremony that gradually turned into hilarious knockabout >
b. : boisterous farcical humor of the kind found in knockabout comedy
< the rehearsal scene was good knockabout — Leslie Rees >
2.
a. Australia : a handyman on a sheep station
b. : one that wanders about or travels in an irregular, haphazard, or aimless way : wanderer, vagrant
< a man without family, a knockabout — D.C.Peattie >
3. : a sloop with a simplified rig marked by absence of bowsprit and topmast and by having a single headsail on the forestay
4. : something designed or suitable for rough or casual informal use: as
a. : an article of clothing (as a coat, hat) designed or suitable for such use
b. : an unpretentious vehicle especially designed or suitable for short trips or other casual informal use
< a secondhand car that will serve as a knockabout >
< was now in a one-cylinder knockabout which in every way lived up to its name — William Beebe > |