[nok-uh-bout] 
| 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. |
| 5. | British Archaic. wanderer. |
| 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. |
| knock·a·bout (nŏk'ə-bout') adj.
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