knockabout

Meanings

Adjective

Noun

  • A small sailboat lacking a bowsprit, of a type found primarily in the Massachusetts area
  • A slapstick comedy or comedian.
  • A tumbler.
  • Clothing suitable for rough use.
  • A worker habitually engaged in casual employment.
  • A person living in rough, violent conditions.

Origin

  • knock + about

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