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knock down
verb- to earn US, 1929
- A well known model can easily knock down a grand a week. Even dubs make $500. — Lee Mortimer, Women Confidential, p. 131, 1960
- Washed dishes, uh, used to wash the tables in the pool halls in the Student Union, used to knock down about five dollars a night out there. — Leonard Wolfe (Editor), Voices from the Love Generation, p. 254, 1968
- to make a sale at auction UK, 1760
- — John Ayto, The Oxford Dictionary of Slang, p. 201, 1998
- to steal CANADA
- Knocking down hubcaps or some other rat caper is about their speed. — Hugh Garner, The Intruders, p. 39, 1976
- to rob US
- You ever hear of somebody knocking down a post office? — Elmore Leonard, Swag, p. 76, 1976
- to spend the entire sum of money earned for seasonal work in a drinking spree AUSTRALIA, 1845
Once a veritable institution this practice was especially common amongst shearers and sailors. - to drink UK, 1960
A variation of KNOCK BACK - [I]t was no good [...] knocking down gin-and-tonic when there were no wages[.] — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 28, 1962
- This ain’t Kentucky sipping whiskey. It’s Mexican rot gut. You knock it down in one shot. — Quentin Tarantino, From Dusk Till Dawn, p. 96, 1995
- By my reckoning, she should just have knocked down her start-me-up cup of coffee[.] — Diran Abedayo, My Once Upon A Time, p. 92, 2000
- to introduce US
- — Lavada Durst, The Jives of Dr. Hepcat, p. 13, 1953
- Playboy could knock him down (introduce him) to those worth knowing. — Caryl Chessman, Cell 2456 Death Row, p. 95, 1954
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