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knock out
verb- to have a very powerful effect on, to impress profoundly US, 1890
- Tony had a natural musical sense I’ve hardly ever seen equalled, and he wrote a number called Pretty Little Baby that really knocked me out. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 45, 1946
- I was really knocked-out by her generosity in parting with all the “good” records she’d had for years, etc. — Neal Cassady, Neal Cassady Collected Letters 1944–1967, p. 60, 5 November 1947: Letter to Jack Kerouac
- "But Dobie," wailed Clothilde. "It’s Montgomery Clift. He knocks me out. Doesn’t he knock you out?" — Max Shulman, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, p. 4, 1951
- Guys and gals, it knocks me out to be able to elucidate — Lavada Durst, The Jives of Dr. Hepcat, 1953
- It knocked me out, too, when I first broke in here. — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 48, 1964
- And the Southern girls with the way they talk / They knock me out when I’m down there — Brian Wilson (performed by the Beach Boys), California Girls, 1965
- It really knocked me out to hear him give directions. — Lenny Bruce, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, p. 40, 1965
- to manufacture or supply cheaply UK, 1876
The currency of market-traders and sweat-shops, “knock it out cheap”, “knock them out”, adopted into wider use. - Jeff from FBT and I were in the studio and we had just knocked out a song, but we were trying to come up with more shit. — Eminem (Marshall Mathers), Angry Blonde, p. 27, 2001
- [I]t’s just a bit of gear [stolen goods] I knock out to a few reliable fellas. — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 31, 2001
- to produce AUSTRALIA
- Of course a chap might knock out a bit of fun shooting pigeons in the cork-woods, and an occasional satin-bird made a good mark in its steel-blue feathers. — Kylie Tennant, Lost Haven, p. 248, 1946
- I should have it knocked out by next week...allow a lag for publication...by the end of April I’d say, at the least. — John A. Scott, Blair, p. 56, 1988
- to go to sleep US
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 6, Spring 2003
- to burgle in such a thorough manner that nothing of any value remains UK
- — Paul Tempest, Lag’s Lexicon, 1950
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