Knockabout [adjective]
Definition of Knockabout:
rough
Synonyms of Knockabout:
Sentence/Example of Knockabout:
Doug transports this knockabout grace into “The Mark of Zorro.”
I suppose a knockabout like myself gets all the taste for the fine arts knocked out of him.
If all was as I hardly dared to hope, I would give up my present knockabout life, and take a good farm somewhere and settle down.
Having settled myself, or my property rather, I put on my knockabout clothes and went out for a walk.
At first the set was content with giving a sort of low comedian, knockabout performance.
During that first engagement with the Burr Robbins show I was what was called a “talking and knockabout clown.”
This motive is glorified in the quarrel between Brutus and Cassius, degraded in the patter of two "knockabout comedians."
There had been something like vaudeville—say Signor Givens and his funny knockabout act with the stuffed lion.
There had been something like vaudeville--say Signor Givens and his funny knockabout act with the stuffed lion.
There was no knockabout business; nobody entered the room with a somersault, tripped over a pin or hung his hat on the scenery.