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knockabout

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: knockabout

1
 adj
full of rough and exuberant animal spirits
2
 n
a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: knockabout
1

adj full of rough and exuberant animal spirits

“knockabout comedy”
Synonyms:
boisterous
spirited
displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness

adj suitable for rough use

“a knockabout overcoat”
“a knockabout old car”
Synonyms
rugged
sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring
2

n a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit

Type of:
sloop
a sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow
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