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Knockabout

adjective
1.
Full of rough and exuberant animal spirits.  Synonym: boisterous.  "Knockabout comedy"
2.
Suitable for rough use.  "A knockabout old car"






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"Knockabout" Quotes from Famous Books



... guess. So she said, "When Mrs. Fulton doesn't draw a line through it." So it seemed that the forty-ninth day of her probation had not been a passage of time. Time had stood still. Why? Well, in the afternoon Mrs. Fulton had gone as crew with a young gentleman who owned a knockabout, and they had got wet to the skin, and had won a leg on some pennant or other after a close, well-sailed race. Mrs. Fulton had come home about dark, drenched, blooming, buoyant, and chattering about the events of the afternoon. She had had her first heart-felt good time of ...
— We Three • Gouverneur Morris



Words linked to "Knockabout" :   sloop, spirited, rugged, boisterous



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