Definitions for knockout

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knockout knock·out

Spelling: [nok-out]

IPA: /ˈnɒkˌaʊt/

Knockout is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 93 anagrams from letters in knockout (ckknootu).

Definitions for knockout

noun

1. an act or instance of knocking out.
2. the state or fact of being knocked out.
3. a knockout blow.
4. Informal. a person or thing overwhelmingly attractive, appealing, or successful.
5. a panel in a casing, can, or box, especially of metal or plastic, so designed that it can readily be removed, as by punching, hammering, or cutting, to provide an opening into the interior:
6. Machinery. a device for knocking something loose, as finished work from a lathe chuck.

adjective

1. that knocks out:

Origin of knockout

1810-20; 1935-40 for def 4; noun, adj. use of verb phrase knock out

Examples for knockout

If Jim has told you that I gave him a knockout to win the race, it's a lie, Pen!

Indeed, when asked about the “knockout game,” law enforcement has been skeptical.

With the “knockout game,” we have several cases in a handful of cities, as well as five reported deaths.

It was the seventeen-course night dinners and the foreign cooking that gave him the knockout.

Those who had charge of the boxing never let a bout go to a knockout.

Have teenagers adopted a new game of random assaults, with the goal of a one-hit “knockout”?

She deliver a knockout performance, helping her clear the second big hurdle: living up to expectations.

There's a knockout comin' to the best of 'em, if they hang to the game long enough.

The Obama team has won the first round on the six-month agreement with Iran by a knockout.

It's a blow below the belt, but it's a knockout for the moment.