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Definition of knockabout in English: knockaboutadjectiveˈnɒkəbaʊtˈnɑkəˌbaʊt 1Denoting rough, slapstick comedy. 打闹型喜剧的 Example sentencesExamples - These were lively, swift-moving knockabout sketches with a slightly risqué edge for its young audience.
- His writing was often deceptively whimsical, full of surreal creations and semi-fictional characters, but behind the knockabout humour lay some of the sharpest political commentary to be found in the educational press.
- It takes something close to idiocy to think that Shaw's comedy Arms and the Man can be played as knockabout farce.
- If this sounds like an unlikely subject for knockabout comedy, it is, but Booker prize winner DBC Pierre almost pulls it off.
- The mood can shift from knockabout comedy to taut thriller in a heartbeat, which keeps the viewer from becoming complacent: One never knows what the film is going to do next.
Synonyms lively, active, animated, exuberant, spirited, bouncy, frisky, excited, overexcited, in high spirits, high-spirited, ebullient, vibrant, rowdy, unruly, wild, uproarious, unrestrained, undisciplined, uninhibited, uncontrolled, abandoned, rough, romping, rollicking, disorderly, riotous, rip-roaring, rumbustious, roistering, tumultuous 2(of clothes) suitable for rough use. （衣服）耐磨的
nounˈnɒkəbaʊtˈnɑkəˌbaʊt 1A rough, slapstick comic performance. 打闹型喜剧的 Example sentencesExamples - It may have gone down well with his party activists, but most members of the public will see it at best as political knockabout.
- People are so sick of the Punch and Judy knockabout which passes for political debate that they are voting with their backsides and refusing to make the trip to the ballot box.
- Behind the day's knockabout lay serious politicking over both policy and personalities.
- That's where the plot begins and ends, but this is 20 minutes of hilarious knockabout, culminating in everyone getting drunk.
- Now, at one level this is all harmless political knockabout.
- It is a fairy tale with links at various points to The Magic Flute, though there is less knockabout and more gentle humour in Henze's comedy.
2US A tramp. 〈美，澳〉流浪汉 Synonyms tramp, drifter, down-and-out, derelict, beggar, itinerant, wanderer, nomad, wayfarer, traveller, gypsy, rover, vagabond, transient, migrant, homeless person, beachcomber, person of no fixed abode, person of no fixed address, knight of the road, bird of passage, rolling stone 3Australian NZ A farm or station handyman. 〈澳〉农场小工；火车站小工 Example sentencesExamples - As the film opens, Jake Gyllenhaal's Jack and Heath Ledger's Ennis are two ordinary-enough knockabouts hired to herd sheep in Wyoming in the summer of 1963.
4North American A small yacht or dinghy. 〈北美〉小游艇，小舢板
Definition of knockabout in US English: knockaboutadjectiveˈnäkəˌboutˈnɑkəˌbaʊt 1Denoting a rough, slapstick comic performance. 打闹型喜剧的 Example sentencesExamples - It takes something close to idiocy to think that Shaw's comedy Arms and the Man can be played as knockabout farce.
- The mood can shift from knockabout comedy to taut thriller in a heartbeat, which keeps the viewer from becoming complacent: One never knows what the film is going to do next.
- If this sounds like an unlikely subject for knockabout comedy, it is, but Booker prize winner DBC Pierre almost pulls it off.
- His writing was often deceptively whimsical, full of surreal creations and semi-fictional characters, but behind the knockabout humour lay some of the sharpest political commentary to be found in the educational press.
- These were lively, swift-moving knockabout sketches with a slightly risqué edge for its young audience.
Synonyms lively, active, animated, exuberant, spirited, bouncy, frisky, excited, overexcited, in high spirits, high-spirited, ebullient, vibrant, rowdy, unruly, wild, uproarious, unrestrained, undisciplined, uninhibited, uncontrolled, abandoned, rough, romping, rollicking, disorderly, riotous, rip-roaring, rumbustious, roistering, tumultuous 2(of clothes) suitable for rough use. （衣服）耐磨的
nounˈnäkəˌboutˈnɑkəˌbaʊt 1A rough, slapstick comic performance. 打闹型喜剧的 Example sentencesExamples - It is a fairy tale with links at various points to The Magic Flute, though there is less knockabout and more gentle humour in Henze's comedy.
- People are so sick of the Punch and Judy knockabout which passes for political debate that they are voting with their backsides and refusing to make the trip to the ballot box.
- Now, at one level this is all harmless political knockabout.
- Behind the day's knockabout lay serious politicking over both policy and personalities.
- That's where the plot begins and ends, but this is 20 minutes of hilarious knockabout, culminating in everyone getting drunk.
- It may have gone down well with his party activists, but most members of the public will see it at best as political knockabout.
2US A tramp or vagrant. Synonyms tramp, drifter, down-and-out, derelict, beggar, itinerant, wanderer, nomad, wayfarer, traveller, gypsy, rover, vagabond, transient, migrant, homeless person, beachcomber, person of no fixed abode, person of no fixed address, knight of the road, bird of passage, rolling stone 3North American A small yacht or dinghy. 〈北美〉小游艇，小舢板
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