Knockabout

Word KNOCKABOUT
Character 10
Hyphenation knock a bout
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Definitions and meanings of "Knockabout"

What do we mean by knockabout?

Boisterous; rowdy. adjective

Appropriate for rough wear or use. adjective

A small sloop with a mainsail, jib, and keel but no bowsprit. noun

Noting something which knocks (other things) about; rough; buffeting; boisterous: as, a knockabout game of foot-ball.

Accustomed to knock about or to be knocked about: as, a knockabout globe-trotter; suitable to be knocked about in: as, a knockabout coat.

Noisy; full of horse-play: as, a knockabout entertainment; knockabout business.

In Australia, applied to a jack of all trades on a station.

A traveler; one who has knocked about. noun

A performer in a knockabout playorsketch;the sketch itself. noun

In Australia, a hand on a station who does a little of everything. noun

A small sailing-yacht of light construction and simple sail rig, the latter consisting of a mainsail and a jib bent on a stay that is set up on the stem of the boat. These boats, as a rule, are flat-bottomed, with a fin-keel, and can be handled very quickly, going from one tack to another without apparently losing speed. Some knockabouts are provided with a center-board instead of a fin, for use in shallow waters. noun

A small launch. noun

A small yacht, generally from fifteen to twenty-five feet in length, having a mainsail and a jib; a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit. All knockabouts have ballast and either a keel or centerboard. The original type was twenty-one feet in length. The next larger type is called a raceabout. noun

A knockabout performer or performance. noun

A man hired on a sheep station to do odd jobs. noun

Marked by knocking about or roughness. adjective

Of noisy and violent character; marked by farce, pratfalls, and horseplay. adjective

Characterized by, or suitable for, knocking about, or traveling or wandering hither and thither; suitable for use in rough activity; suited for everyday use; -- used especially of clothing. adjective

That does odd jobs; -- said of a class of hands or laborers on a sheep station. adjective

Boisterous adjective

A small sailboat lacking a bowsprit, of a type found primarily in the Massachusetts area

(entertainment) A slapstick comedy or comedian.

(circus) A tumbler.

Clothing suitable for rough use.

A worker habitually engaged in casual employment.

A person living in rough, violent conditions.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Knockabout

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The word "knockabout" in example sentences

Sir Alex Ferguson's side a real end of term knockabout feel and even less incentive for the neutral to tune in tonight. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The vaudeville act of "The Fighting Keatons" concentrated almost completely on the category known as knockabout farce. ❋ Unknown (2007)

There was another called a knockabout - (I am not very good on these things but apparently a knockabout knows every machine in the shop) and they tell me they were coming back to start training women in Canada with the same high hopes, and I am sure those hopes will be carried out, and the women of Canada will be as good as the women of England. ❋ Unknown (1941)

For those of us brought up on the "he'll be disappointed with that" school of punditry beloved of former footballers, this kind of knockabout stuff is almost worth getting up – or staying up – for. ❋ Martin Kelner (2010)

But, largely as a result of some ill-considered comments by Rhodri Morgan about climate change the day before, the debate degenerated into 'knockabout'. ❋ Glyn Davies (2007)

Guido is a very different show, he's "knockabout". ❋ Garry (2006)

Here he secured the "knockabout" horse, always kept saddled and bridled about the station for generally-useful work, and set off at a swinging canter up the paddock after his own steed. ❋ Unknown (1902)

Don’t believe you’d care for the kind of knockabout jobs I’ll have to get.” ❋ Unknown (2004)

Don't believe you'd care for the kind of knockabout jobs I'll have to get. " ❋ Sinclair Lewis (1918)

Thus far the storyline has consisted of endless scenes in which rhubarbing menials stand around with folded arms, the mood pitched somewhere between the knockabout rustic japery of Straw Dogs and the apocalyptic menace of a Yeo Valley ad. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The other fascinating thing about the session, much of it devoted to the usual inconclusive knockabout, was spotted by Sky News, which heard George Osborne apparently prompting Cameron with the bank joke just before he made it. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It's obvious that the studio is trying to sell this as a knockabout sex farce with Steve Carell as the main attraction. ❋ Marshall Fine (2011)

Kage Baker is not a humorist per se, but there's a sly wit that infuses everything she writes, and I think that parts of The Anvil Of The World and knockabout farces like "Mother Aegypt," "The Empress of Mars," and "Maelstrom" are quite amusing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Paul (15) (Greg Mottola, 2011, US) Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen. 104 minsPegg and Frost indulge their fanboyishness, and their non-gay buddy love, in a knockabout comedy that plays like a stoner ET. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I recently saw the coming attraction for the new “Transformers” flick, and in viewing its wall-to-wall knockabout I began to wonder where movie special effects actually began. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To my mind, the funniest one is the knockabout Love at First Bite, starring George Hamilton as Count Dracula in New York. ❋ Philip French (2010)

Russell T Davies, the Welsh writer and producer who revived “Doctor Who” and created “Torchwood,” has thrived by taking the low-rent, knockabout style of the original “Doctor Who” and giving it a nighttime-soap-opera gloss. ❋ Rabid1st (2009)

According to DS Steve Worthington, of London's Paddington Green police station, any time is a good time, especially if the accusations are expressed in the kind of knockabout vernacular favoured by poisonous mobs. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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