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knockabout

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knock·a·bout  (nk-bout)
adj.
1. Boisterous; rowdy.
2. Appropriate for rough wear or use: a knockabout overcoat.
n.
A small sloop with a mainsail, jib, and keel but no bowsprit.
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Noun1.knockaboutknockabout - a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit
sloop - a sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow
Adj.1.knockabout - full of rough and exuberant animal spirits; "boisterous practical jokes"; "knockabout comedy"
boisterous
spirited - displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness
2.knockabout - suitable for rough use; "a knockabout overcoat"; "a knockabout old car"
rugged - sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring; "with a house full of boys you have to have rugged furniture"
knockabout
adjective boisterous, riotous, rollicking, rough-and-tumble, rumbustious, rambunctious (informal) harum-scarum, farcical, slapstick
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His life was a tragedy written in the terms of knockabout farce.
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