knock : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a state of misfortune or affliction
  hardship; adversity.
  
  • debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity
  • a life of hardship

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• verb strike against forcefully
  batter; buffet.
  
  • Winds buffeted the tent
• verb be around; be alive or active
  kick around; kick about.
  
  • Does the old man still kick around?

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• verb collide violently with an obstacle
  run into; jar against; butt against; bump into.
  
  • I ran into the telephone pole

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• verb cost a certain amount
  put back; set back.
  
  • My daughter's wedding set me back $20,000

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• verb knock unconscious or senseless
  kayo; knock cold.
  
  • the boxing champion knocked out his opponent in a few seconds

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• verb cause to come or go down
  down; push down; pull down; cut down.
  
  • The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect
  • The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet
• verb knock down with force
  floor; dump; coldcock; deck.
  
  • He decked his opponent
• verb shatter as if by explosion
  blast.
  

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• verb get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing
  neutralize; liquidate; do in; waste; neutralise.
  
  • The mafia liquidated the informer
  • the double agent was neutralized
• verb cut the price of
  shave.
  
• verb take by theft
  cop; glom; thieve; hook; snitch.
  
  • Someone snitched my wallet!
• verb write quickly
  fling off; dash off; toss off; scratch off.
  
  • She dashed off a note to her husband saying she would not be home for supper
  • He scratched off a thank-you note to the hostess
• verb stop pursuing or acting
  drop.
  
  • drop a lawsuit
  • knock it off!

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• a device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the needles.

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• noun (rugby) knocking the ball forward while trying to catch it (a foul)
  

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• verb eliminate
  
  • knock out a target
• verb knock unconscious or senseless
  kayo; knock cold.
  
  • the boxing champion knocked out his opponent in a few seconds
• verb destroy or break forcefully
  
  • The windows were knocked out
• verb overwhelm with admiration
  
  • All the guys were knocked out by her charm
• verb empty (as of tobacco) by knocking out
  
  • knocked out a pipe

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• verb cause to overturn from an upright or normal position
  turn over; tip over; tump over; upset; overturn; bowl over.
  
  • The cat knocked over the flower vase
  • the clumsy customer turned over the vase
  • he tumped over his beer

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• noun a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards remaining in their hand total less than 10 points
  gin rummy; gin.
  

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• verb make pregnant
  impregnate; prang up; bang up.
  
  • He impregnated his wife again

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• adjective satellite strong enough to knock down or overwhelm
  powerful.
  
  • a knock-down blow

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• adjective satellite extremely violent
  knockdown-dragout.
  
  • a knock-down-and-drag-out fight

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• noun an inward slant of the thigh
  tibia valga; genu valgum.
  

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Knock"-knee` noun

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1. (Med.) A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee.

Webster 1913

• adjective satellite having the knees abnormally close together and the ankles wide apart
  

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Knock"-kneed` adjective

Definitions

1. Having the legs bent inward so that the knees touch in walking. Written also knack-kneed. knockoff. a cheap imitation of something popular, often produced illegally and of inferior materials.

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• noun a secondary or incidental effect
  

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• adjective satellite knocked unconscious by a heavy blow
  kayoed; out; stunned; KO'd.
  

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• adjective satellite damaged
  
  • the gym has some of the most knocked-out equipment since Vic Tanny

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• to go about, taking knocks or rough usage; to wander about; to saunter. Colloq. "Knocking about town." W. Irving.

Webster 1913

• . (a) To strike down; to fell; to prostrate by a blow or by blows; as, to knock down an assailant . (b) To assign to a bidder at an auction, by a blow or knock; to knock off.

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• to stun or kill by a blow upon the head; hence, to put am end to; to defeat, as a scheme or project; to frustrate; to quash. Colloq.

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• to cease, as from work; to desist.
• . (a) To force off by a blow or by beating. (b) To assign to a bidder at an auction, by a blow on the counter . (c) To leave off (work, etc.) . Colloq.

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• , to force out by a blow or by blows; as, to knock out the brains.

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• to yield; to submit; to acknowledge one's self conquered; an expression probably borrowed from the practice of knocking under the table with the knuckles, when conquered. "Colonel Esmond knocked under to his fate." Thackeray.

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• to fail of strength; to become wearied or worn out, as with labor; to give out. "The horses were beginning to knock up under the fatigue of such severe service." De Quincey. (b) to make pregnant (vulgar)
• . (a) To arouse by knocking . (b) To beat or tire out; to fatigue till unable to do more; as, the men were entirely knocked up. Colloq. "The day being exceedingly hot, the want of food had knocked up my followers." Petherick. (c) (Bookbinding) To make even at the edges, or to shape into book form, as printed sheets. (d) To make pregnant. [vulgar: Often used in passive, "she got knocked up"]

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