knock about
/nok-uh-bout/US // ˈnɒk əˌbaʊt //
磕磕碰碰,敲敲打打,碰壁,磕磕绊绊
Related Words
tough艰难的,艰难,坚韧,坚韧的rowdy痞子,吵闹的,烂漫的,烂漫raw未生的,未生,未生熟的,未生的人crude粗略的,粗鲁的,粗陋的,粗略rough-and-tumble粗暴的,粗犷的,粗野的,粗暴地对待mean意味着,是指,意思是说,意思是coarse粗糙的,粗略的,粗大的,粗略crass粗鲁的,粗鲁,粗俗,粗俗的hard艰苦,艰难的,艰难,艰苦的nasty讨厌的,讨厌的人,龌龊,恶劣的rugged崎岖不平的,崎岖不平,坚固耐用,崎岖的strenuous费力的,费力,吃力,艰苦unpolished未经抛光的,未抛光,未抛光的,未经打磨的unrefined未经加工的,未经加工处理的,未经加工,未经加工的产品
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : Nautical. 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.
- : something designed or suitable for rough or casual use, as a sturdy jacket, a secondhand car, etc.
- : a slapstick comedian or comedy.
- : Australian. an itinerant farm hand or ranch hand; an itinerant handyman.
- : British Archaic. wanderer.
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : suitable for rough use, as a garment: a knockabout jacket and jeans.
- : characterized by knocking about; rough; boisterous.
- : slapstick: knockabout comedy.
- : shiftless; aimless: a knockabout kind of person.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Doug transports this knockabout grace into “The Mark of Zorro.”
She kept the jeans on for her knockabout, but changed her heels for sneakers and slipped into a grey team GB fleece.
I suppose a knockabout like myself gets all the taste for the fine arts knocked out of him.
If all was as I hardly dared to hope, I would give up my present knockabout life, and take a good farm somewhere and settle down.
Having settled myself, or my property rather, I put on my knockabout clothes and went out for a walk.
At first the set was content with giving a sort of low comedian, knockabout performance.
During that first engagement with the Burr Robbins show I was what was called a “talking and knockabout clown.”
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