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Knockout   /nˈɑkˌaʊt/   Listen
noun
knock-out, knockout  n.  
1.
Act of knocking out, or state of being knocked out; the act of rendering a person unconscious by a blow.
2.
A blow which causes a person to become unconscious.
Synonyms: knockout blow, knockout punch.
3.
(Boxing) The winning of a boxing contest by rendering the opponent unable to stand for a specified period, usually a count of ten; in contrast to a win by a decision; as, Muhammed Ali won by a knockout in the first round.
4.
A strikingly beautiful woman. (Informal)





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"Knockout" Quotes from Famous Books



... was now a good boy, who had been led astray by other boys, but had reformed. Jim Irwin had a distinct feeling of optimism. Newton had quit tobacco and beer, casually stating to Jim that he was "in training." Since Jim had shown his ability to administer a knockout to that angry chauffeur, he seemed to this hobbledehoy peculiarly a proper person for athletic confidences. Newton's mind seemed gradually filling up with interests that displaced the psychological complex out of which oozed the ...
— The Brown Mouse • Herbert Quick
... It would hardly do to take another cadet to hospital that night. Anyway Dennison would need a stretcher, and four cadets to carry him, for he still lay on the floor in a stupor, from which the usual methods of reviving a man after a knockout failed to bring him. ...
— Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point - Finding the Glory of the Soldier's Life • H. Irving Hancock
... skeleton in the closet; amari aliquid[Lat][obs3], thorn in the side. malignity; malevolence &c. 907; tender mercies [ironically]. ill-treatment, annoyance, molestation, abuse, oppression, persecution, outrage; misusage &c. 679; injury &c. (damage) 659; knockout drops [U. S.]. badness &c. adj.; peccancy[obs3], abomination; painfulness &c. 830; pestilence &c. (disease) 655; guilt &c. 947; depravity &c. 945. V. be hurtful &c. adj.; cause evil, produce evil, inflict evil, work evil, do evil &c. 619; damnify[obs3], endamage[obs3], hurt, harm; injure &c. (damage) ...
— Roget's Thesaurus • Peter Mark Roget


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