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knockabout
adjective- experienced, well-travelled AUSTRALIA
- This fella’s name was Dooley Franks. A real knockabout man. — Frank Hardy, The Yarns of Billy Borker, p. 82, 1965
- “Here!” he said to Miles, simply throwing Miles the other blanket he’d brought, as if he and Miles were old, knockabout kinsmen. — Thomas Keneally, Bring Larks and Heroes, p. 232, 1967
- First of the knockabout, slapstick westerns, with John Wayne and Stewart Granger digging for gold in Alaska, and involved with beautiful Capucine. — The Advertiser, p. 90, 1 March 1990
- Davenport, a tenacious journalist and Vietnam war-correspondent, was one of those knockabout newspapermen who had moles, informants and mates everywhere. — Robert G. Barrett, Davo’s Little Something, p. 230, 1992
- There’s you knockabout mates who are all good blokes and know what a good time is all about[.] — Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, p. 21, 1995
- of theatrical entertainment, noisy and violent, slapstick UK, 1892
- Writer Guy Jenkin, who also directed, spurned the rapier of true satire for the blunt instrument of knockabout comedy. — The Guardian, 2 December 2002
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