Lexic.us

Definition of Knock about

1. Verb. Strike against forcefully. "Winds buffeted the tent"

2. Verb. Be around; be alive or active. "Does the old man still kick around?"

Definition of Knock about

1. Noun. an informal game, usually football ¹

2. Verb. to spend time with someone as a friend ¹

3. Verb. To do a relaxing activity. ¹

4. Verb. To be in an unknown place. ¹

5. Verb. To hit someone, or behave violently towards them. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Knock About

knock-kneed knock-knees knock-knock knock-knock joke knock-knock jokes knock-off knock-on knock-on effect knock-on effects knock-ons

knock-out knock-out drops knock-up knock Anthony knock about (current term) knock abouts knock against knock around knock back knock box

knock boxes knock cold knock down knock for a loop knock into a cocked hat knock it off knock knee knock knock

Literary usage of Knock about

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Two Summers in Greenland: An Artist's Adventures Among Ice and Islands, in by Andreas Christian Riis Carstensen (1890)
"... not arrived—I embark and go to sea—" A life on the ocean wave "— We knock about for three weeks in Davis Strait; in two weeks we reach the North Sea, ..."

2. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1860)
"To knock about. To go or saunter about. An English phrase, though not in the dictionaries. A long course of solicitation, haunting public offices, ..."

3. Parts of the body in older Germanic and Scandinavian by Torild Washington Arnoldson (1916)
"NE. knock about wander here and there; lounge, dial. also move or work briskly, NE. dial. knock-about a wanderer, one who roves about from place to place, ..."

4. Webster's Elementary-school Dictionary: Abridged from Webster's New by Noah Webster (1914)
"to knock about, to travel or wander about in an irregular way. Colloq. ... to knock about, to strike hither and thither ; treat roughly. ..."

5. A Lexicon, English and Turkish: Shewing, in Turkish, the Literal, Incidental by James William Redhouse (1861)
"^Vji Knock (nôk'), va v> = To knock about, : aL To knock away, vj : j^rf vi;y (••) : To knock down, : a To knock in, ..."

6. A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and by John Foster Kirk, Kirk, John Foster, 1824-1904, Samuel Austin Allibone (1891)
"Knock-About Club in the Woods: Adven- tures in the Wilds of Muine and Canada. ... Knock-About Club Alongshore: Adventures of a Party from Boston to the Land ..."

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