knockabout

Plural: knockabouts

Noun

• a sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit
• Clothing suitable for rough use.
• A worker habitually engaged in casual employment.
• A person living in rough, violent conditions.
• A tumbler.
• A slapstick comedian or comedy.
• A small sailboat lacking a bowsprit, of a type found primarily in the Massachusetts area.
• An act of playing a sport casually or informally.

Adjective Satellite

• full of rough and exuberant animal spirits
  • "knockabout comedy"
• suitable for rough use
  • "a knockabout overcoat"
  • "a knockabout old car"

Adj

• Boisterous
• Suitable for rough use.

Examples

• I have a knockabout cello for non-concert gigs.
• The kids had a knockabout with a football in the backyard.
• We sailed our knockabout around Cape Cod.

Synonyms

boisterous

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