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What (who) is knockabout - definition
Knockabout
·add. ·adj Of noisy and violent character.
II. Knockabout ·add. ·noun A knockabout performer or performance.
III. Knockabout ·add. ·adj Marked by knocking about or roughness.
IV. Knockabout ·add. ·noun A man hired on a sheep station to do odd jobs.
V. Knockabout ·add. ·adj That does odd jobs;
- said of a class of hands or laborers on a sheep station.
VI. Knockabout ·add. ·adj Characterized by, or suitable for, knocking about, or traveling or wandering hither and thither.
VII. Knockabout ·add. ·noun A small yacht, generally from fifteen to twenty-five feet in length, having a mainsail and a jib. All knockabouts have ballast and either a keel or centerboard. The original type was twenty-one feet in length. The next larger type is called a raceabout.
knockabout
Knockabout comedy is lively and often involves people doing funny things, rather than saying them. (mainly BRIT)
He gave one of his best knockabout performances in a long time.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
knockabout
¦ adjective
1. denoting rough, slapstick comedy.
2. (of clothes) suitable for rough use.
¦ noun
1. US a tramp.
2. Austral./NZ a farm or station handyman.
3. N. Amer. a small yacht or dinghy.
Examples of use of knockabout
1. Humphrys was unrepentant, insisting that they were meant to be humorous and knockabout.
2. The result of the rudest and most knockabout election since 1'45 was a turnout of 72 per cent.
3. His quip–laden, almost knockabout daily Pentagon briefings were highly entertaining if not always suffused with clarity.
4. It all makes for good knockabout television, but what is significant is Burrell‘s apparent discontent in his career.
5. His criticisms go beyond the knockabout dispute over whether Mr Juncker or Jean–Claude Trichet, ECB president, embodies the euro.