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knockback
noun- a refusal; a rejection AUSTRALIA, 1918
- When a bush worker came to Toganmain looking for a job he could be pretty certain he wouldn’t get a knockback. — Bill Wannan, Bullockies, Beauts and Bandicoots, p. 43, 1960
- I never got a knock back when I used to pose at the East Sydney Technical College in the old days. — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 68, 1996
- Those are hard faces. Hard from years of fights and self-defence and looking after number one and scowling and knock-backs and disappointment and smacks and zero expectations from day one. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 163, 2001
- "Knock-back" is a term a lifer adds to vocabulary early on in his sentence. — Erwin James, The Guardian, 15 November 2001: “A life inside”
- an “offer by a bookmaker to accept a wager at lower odds or for a lesser stake, in part at full odds with the balance at reduced odds, or at SP (starting price) terms only” UK
- — David Bennet, Know Your Bets, p. 56, 2001
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