knock about 的 2 个定义
- 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.
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- 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.
knock about 近义词
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更多knock about例句
- 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.”