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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



... yet his match," Bruce soberly decided. "If I were fortunate enough to land a knockout blow with my left at the outset I'd finish him easily; but if he should play me and keep out of my reach he might get me winded so he could finally get the best of it. I ...
— Frank Merriwell at Yale • Burt L. Standish
... to go into a clinch, meeting his antagonist's rushes with straight lefts, and following with futile swings of his right. The tough was too skilled to be caught with a solid blow. Once Roger landed full on the jaw with what he expected to be a knockout and the blow glanced harmlessly, as the man rolled his head back with the trained pugilist's skill. Roger realized that it would be no short fight, and he thought of the man he had knocked into the canal. The fight had raged down ...
— The Plunderer • Henry Oyen
... behavior after I was wheeled home," said Philip's father mournfully, "as it was my getting so outrageously drunk on two glasses of beer. That was the final straw. Why couldn't he have made it several quarts of brandy, or even knockout drops?" ...
— The Wishing-Ring Man • Margaret Widdemer
... companion said slowly, as he lowered himself to sit beside Kippy, "that was September '14. I took my first knockout there, an' then clicked with you again in Southmead ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Feb. 26, 1919 • Various
... the drift of his remarks. "We have found, for instance, that there are a great many cases where it seems that drugs have been used in luring young and innocent girls. Not the old knockout drops—chloral, you know—but modern drugs, not so powerful, perhaps, but more insidious, and in that respect, I suppose, more dangerous. There are cocaine fiends, opium smokers; oh, lots of them. But those we find in the slums mostly. ...
— The Ear in the Wall • Arthur B. Reeve
... "Hard position to land a knockout from. But I caught him just right. He'll trouble us no more for a few minutes, I fancy. You're bleeding! Did he ...
— A Rock in the Baltic • Robert Barr
... he awakened again. His throbbing head slowly definitized the vile hole in which he lay as the forecastle of a ship. Gradually the facts sifted back to him. He recalled the fight on the wharf and the drink in the boat. In this last he suspected knockout drops. That he had been shanghaied was ...
— The Vision Spendid • William MacLeod Raine


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