Usually means: Rough, informal, and boisterously playful.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word knockabout:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. knockabout: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. knockabout: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. knockabout: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. knockabout: Collins English Dictionary
  5. knockabout: Vocabulary.com
  6. knockabout: Wordnik
  7. knockabout: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. knockabout: Wiktionary
  9. knockabout: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. knockabout: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. knockabout: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Knockabout, knockabout: Dictionary.com
  13. Knockabout (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. knockabout: Rhymezone
  15. knockabout: MyWord.info
  16. knockabout: Free Dictionary
  17. knockabout: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. knockabout: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Knockabout (disambiguation): Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knockabout, knockabout: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Boisterous
adjective:  Suitable for rough use.
noun:  Clothing suitable for rough use.
noun:  A worker habitually engaged in casual employment.
noun:  A person living in rough, violent conditions.
noun:  (circus) A tumbler.
noun:  (entertainment) A slapstick comedian or comedy.
noun:  (sailing) A small sailboat lacking a bowsprit, of a type found primarily in the Massachusetts area.
noun:  (sports, informal) An act of playing a sport casually or informally.

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