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Knockdown   /nˈɑkdˌaʊn/   Listen
Knockdown

noun
1.
A blow that knocks the opponent off his feet.



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knockdown-dragout


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"Knockdown" Quotes from Famous Books



... were William Purcell, DeWitt C. West, George M. Beebe, John D. Townsend, and other Tammany talkers, who had a special aptitude for knockdown personalities which the metropolitan side of a Democratic convention never failed to understand. Their loud voices, elementary arguments, and simple quotations neither strained the ears nor puzzled the heads of the audience, while their jibes and jokes, unmistakable in meaning, sounded ...
— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
... Once upon a festal occasion, a little late, quite after the hour when Cinderella was bidden by her godmother to go to bed, I happened to extol the graces and virtues of the newly wedded wife of a friend of mine, and finally, as a knockdown argument, I compared her to my own wife. "In this case," said he, dryly, "you'll catch it when you get home." It is a peculiarity they all have: not a ray of humor where the husband is concerned; to the best of them and to the last ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z • Various


Words linked to "Knockdown" :   knockdown-dragout, piece of furniture, collective, knock down, blow, furniture, article of furniture


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