Definitions for knockabout

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knockabout knock·a·bout

Spelling: [nok-uh-bout]

IPA: /ˈnɒk əˌbaʊt/

Knockabout is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 26 points.

You can make 269 anagrams from letters in knockabout (abckknootu).

Definitions for knockabout

noun

1. Nautical. any of various fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessels having a single jib bent to a stay from the stemhead, no bowsprit being used: usually rigged as a sloop.
2. something designed or suitable for rough or casual use, as a sturdy jacket, a secondhand car, etc.
3. a slapstick comedian or comedy.
4. Australian. an itinerant farm hand or ranch hand; an itinerant handyman.
5. British Archaic. wanderer.

adjective

1. suitable for rough use, as a garment:
2. characterized by knocking about; rough; boisterous.
3. slapstick:
4. shiftless; aimless:

Origin of knockabout

First recorded in 1875-80; noun, adj. use of verb phrase knock about

Examples for knockabout

I suppose a knockabout like myself gets all the taste for the fine arts knocked out of him.

I present the idea, for what it may be worth, to the concoctors of knockabout turns.

Father gave me a knockabout two years ago, and I've had lots of fun in her.

She kept the jeans on for her knockabout, but changed her heels for sneakers and slipped into a grey team GB fleece.

Herring and Phyllis could be seen hoisting the sails on the knockabout.

His life was a tragedy written in the terms of knockabout farce.

As I said when I first came here, I have been a sort of a knockabout, a wanderer.

"I thought I'd take him out in the knockabout," Roger suggested.

I laugh at the knockabout brothers, I confess, so long as they are on the stage; but they do not convince me.

The two best rigs for this class of boat are the cat and knockabout.