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.
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.
adjective 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.
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Knockabout
is always a great word to know.
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Origin:
1875–80; noun, adj. use of verb phrase knock about