knockabout

/ˌnɑkəˈbaʊt/
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Other forms: knockabouts

Definitions of knockabout
  1. adjective
    full of rough and exuberant animal spirits
    “knockabout comedy”
    synonyms: boisterous
    spirited
    displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness
  2. adjective
    suitable for rough use
    “a knockabout overcoat”
    “a knockabout old car”
    synonyms:
    rugged
    sturdy and strong in constitution or construction; enduring
  3. noun
    a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit
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    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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