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Definition of Knock-down-and-drag-out
1. Adjective. Extremely violent. "A knock-down-and-drag-out fight"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knock-down-and-drag-out
Literary usage of Knock-down-and-drag-out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"A "knock down and drag out" is a fight carried to extremities. The term drag out
seems to be also used at the South, to denote a bully, a tearer. u Knock ..."
2. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"Notwithstanding the fact that in the summer of 1900 I indulged in the luxury of
some twenty-five joint political lectures—really " knock- down-and-drag-out" ..."
3. Library of Southern Literature by John Calvin Metcalf (1910)
"Notwithstanding the fact that in the summer of 1900 I indulged in the luxury of
some twenty-five joint political lectures—really "knock-down-and- drag-out" ..."
4. Niles' Weekly Register edited by Hezekiah Niles, Jeremiah Hughes, George Beatty (1835)
"... and they "knock down and drag out" one another without the least ceremony!
One is in and the other wants lo get into office; and this is all the ..."
5. The Life and Letters of Joel Chandler Harris by Julia Collier Harris, Katherine H. Wootten (1918)
"Edward, the white-eyed Butler, is more subdued and does n't knock down and drag
out things as he used to do when you were here. ..."
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