knockoff
or knock-off
an act or instance of knocking off.
an unlicensed copy of something, especially fashion clothing, intended to be sold at a lower price than the original.
Origin of knockoff
1Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use knockoff in a sentence
It inspired several knockoffs, which in turn also were wiped from the shelves, and prompted a “little blue dress” craze.
Soon the rifle and its knockoffs were leaving arms plants across the Warsaw Pact.
Like anything Parisian, there are knockoffs, and cheap ones at that: extruded bits of processed, salt-doped, luridly pink ham.
British Dictionary definitions for knock off
(intr, also preposition) informal to finish work: we knocked off an hour early
(tr) informal to make or do hastily or easily: to knock off a novel in a week
(tr; also preposition) informal to reduce the price of (an article) by (a stated amount)
(tr) slang to kill
(tr) slang to rob or steal: to knock off a bank; to knock off a watch
(tr) slang to stop doing something, used as a command: knock it off!
(tr) slang to have sexual intercourse with; to seduce
informal
an illegal imitation of a well-known product
(as modifier): knockoff watches
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with knockoff
Take a break or rest from, stop, especially quit working. For example, He knocked off work at noon, or Let's knock off at five o'clock. [Colloquial; mid-1600s] Also see knock it off.
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Browse