knockabout
Clothing suitable for rough useClothing suitable for rough use.
Meaning
7 sensesClothing suitable for rough use.
A worker habitually engaged in casual employment.
A person living in rough, violent conditions.
A tumbler.
A slapstick comedian or comedy.
A small sailboat lacking a bowsprit, of a type found primarily in the Massachusetts area.
We sailed our knockabout around Cape Cod.
(informal)An act of playing a sport casually or informally.
The kids had a knockabout with a football in the backyard.
- a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit
Origin
Deverbal from knock about.Deverbal from knock about.
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Forms
plural: knockabouts| Singular | knockabout |
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See also
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