| 单词 | knockabout |
| 释义 | knockabout /nok"euh bowt'/, n. 1. Naut. 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. Brit. Archaic. wanderer. adj. 6. suitable for rough use, as a garment: a knockabout jacket and jeans. 7. characterized by knocking about; rough; boisterous. 8. slapstick: knockabout comedy. 9. shiftless; aimless: a knockabout kind of person. [1875-80; n., adj. use of v. phrase knock about] |
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