Word: knockabout
Category: knockabout
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Synonyms: knockabout
waste time, dally, dawdle, loiter, linger, take one's time, delay, temporize, stall, procrastinate, pussyfoot around, drag one's feet, dither, hesitate, falter, vacillate, waver, hem and haw, shilly-shally, lollygag, let the grass grow under one's feet, tarry, dillydally, shillyshally, drag one's heels
Translations: knockabout
knockabout in french
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french
Translations:
tapageur
knockabout in russian
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russian
Translations:
стычка, актер, бродячий, схватка, участвующий
knockabout in czech
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czech
Translations:
hlučný
knockabout in polish
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polish
Translations:
hałaśliwy, błazeński
knockabout in ukrainian
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ukrainian
Translations:
сенсація, нокаут
knockabout in slovak
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slovak
Translations:
fraškovitý, divoký
The meaning and "use of": knockabout
adjective
- denoting a rough, slapstick comic performance. - The mood can shift from knockabout comedy to taut thriller in a heartbeat, which keeps the viewer from becoming complacent: One never knows what the film is going to do next.
- a rough, slapstick comic performance. - Now, at one level this is all harmless political knockabout .
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