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Knockout   /nˈɑkˌaʊt/   Listen
noun
knock-out, knockout  n.  
1.
Act of knocking out, or state of being knocked out; the act of rendering a person unconscious by a blow.
2.
A blow which causes a person to become unconscious.
Synonyms: knockout blow, knockout punch.
3.
(Boxing) The winning of a boxing contest by rendering the opponent unable to stand for a specified period, usually a count of ten; in contrast to a win by a decision; as, Muhammed Ali won by a knockout in the first round.
4.
A strikingly beautiful woman. (Informal)





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"Knockout" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Only one person," he admitted. "I spoke to Miss Barbara last night as she was going to bed." Grimes laid a hot hand on Kent's and glanced fearfully around the room. "Bend nearer, sir; I don't want none other to hear me. Just before I got that knockout blow in the library last night, I heard the swish o' skirts—and Miss Barbara was the only living person who knew I ...
— The Red Seal • Natalie Sumner Lincoln
... a clinch, meeting his antagonist's rushes with straight lefts, and following with futile swings of his right. The tough was too skilled to be caught with a solid blow. Once Roger landed full on the jaw with what he expected to be a knockout and the blow glanced harmlessly, as the man rolled his head back with the trained pugilist's skill. Roger realized that it would be no short fight, and he thought of the man he had knocked into the canal. The fight had raged down the spoil bank, and he glanced ...
— The Plunderer • Henry Oyen
... Auntie, this was a knockout, one of the kind you read about. Honest, even when I was fittin' corsets for the carriage trade, I never got so close to such a spiffy bunch. But we had the goods to hand 'em—caviar sandwiches, rum for the tea, fizz in the punch. ...
— Wilt Thou Torchy • Sewell Ford
... the sign would appear upon some fence or tree. It would be a knockout blow to any ...
— Pee-wee Harris • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... what he considered ample punishment, yet wary and cautious, the lad gave his entire attention to his effort. He was looking for an opening through which he might slip a "knockout," and gave no heed to the events transpiring about him. Hence he did not notice the approach of a small party of officers until he felt a hand laid heavily upon his shoulder and a voice spoke in ...
— Boy Scouts Mysterious Signal - or Perils of the Black Bear Patrol • G. Harvey Ralphson
... came up after ducking the first blow, the second caught him squarely upon the point of the chin, and he toppled over. It was a clean knockout. ...
— The Boy Allies in Great Peril • Clair W. Hayes
... and gentle and as incapable of bad humor as of constancy or of honesty about money matters, fought under the name of Joe Geary and was known as Upper Cut Joe because usually, in the third round, never later than the fifth, he gave the knockout to his opponent by a cruelly swift and savage uppercut. He had educated himself marvelously well. But he had been brought up among thieves and had by some curious freak never learned to know what a moral sense was, which is one—and a not unattractive—step deeper ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips


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