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knock-down-and-drag-out

[nok-doun-drag-out]

knock-down-drag-out

[nok-doun-drag-out]
adjective
marked by unrelenting violence: a knock-down-drag-out fight.
Also, knock-down, drag-out; knock-down-and-drag-out.


Origin:
1820–30; adj. use of verb phrases knock down and drag out
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Knock-down-and-drag-out is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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knock-down-and-drag-out

adjective
extremely violent; "a knock-down-and-drag-out fight" [syn: knockdown-dragout
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