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Knock off
(gcide) | Knock \Knock\, n.
1. A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar.
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2. A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap. " A knock at
the door." --Longfellow.
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A loud cry or some great knock. --Holland.
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Knock off, See knock off in the vocabulary.
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knock off
(gcide) | knock off \knock off\, n.
a device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the
needles.
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knock off
(gcide) | knock off \knock off\, v. i. & t.
1. to quit (working).
[PJC]
2. to accomplish; -- frequently used when the task is
accomplished rapidly.
[PJC]
3. to kill; to defeat (opponents). [Colloq.]
[PJC]
4. to discount, to deduct (a sum from a price).
[PJC]
5. to rob.
Syn: knock over.
[PJC]
6. to make a knockoff of; to copy or imitate, usually without
permission or admission of copying. --[MW10]
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knock off
(wn) | knock off
v 1: get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing; "The
mafia liquidated the informer"; "the double agent was
neutralized" [syn: neutralize, neutralise, liquidate,
waste, knock off, do in]
2: cut the price of [syn: shave, knock off]
3: take by theft; "Someone snitched my wallet!" [syn: hook,
snitch, thieve, cop, knock off, glom]
4: write quickly; "She dashed off a note to her husband saying
she would not be home for supper"; "He scratched off a thank-
you note to the hostess" [syn: dash off, scratch off,
knock off, toss off, fling off]
5: stop pursuing or acting; "drop a lawsuit"; "knock it off!"
[syn: drop, knock off] |
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Knock off
(gcide) | Knock \Knock\, n.
1. A blow; a stroke with something hard or heavy; a jar.
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2. A stroke, as on a door for admittance; a rap. " A knock at
the door." --Longfellow.
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A loud cry or some great knock. --Holland.
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Knock off, See knock off in the vocabulary.
[PJC]knock off \knock off\, n.
a device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the
needles.
[1913 Webster]knock off \knock off\, v. i. & t.
1. to quit (working).
[PJC]
2. to accomplish; -- frequently used when the task is
accomplished rapidly.
[PJC]
3. to kill; to defeat (opponents). [Colloq.]
[PJC]
4. to discount, to deduct (a sum from a price).
[PJC]
5. to rob.
Syn: knock over.
[PJC]
6. to make a knockoff of; to copy or imitate, usually without
permission or admission of copying. --[MW10]
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To knock off
(gcide) | Knock \Knock\ (n[o^]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Knocked (n[o^]kt);
p. pr. & vb. n. Knocking.] [OE. knoken, AS. cnocian,
cnucian; prob. of imitative origin; cf. Sw. knacka. Cf.
Knack.]
1. To drive or be driven against something; to strike against
something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against
another. --Bacon.
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2. To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap;
as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door.
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For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked.
--Dryden.
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Seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be
opened unto you. --Matt. vii.
7.
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3. To practice evil speaking or fault-finding; to criticize
habitually or captiously. [Slang, U. S.]
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To knock about, to go about, taking knocks or rough usage;
to wander about; to saunter. [Colloq.] "Knocking about
town." --W. Irving.
To knock up, to fail of strength; to become wearied or worn
out, as with labor; to give out. "The horses were
beginning to knock up under the fatigue of such severe
service." --De Quincey.
To knock off, to cease, as from work; to desist.
To knock under, to yield; to submit; to acknowledge one's
self conquered; -- an expression probably borrowed from
the practice of knocking under the table with the
knuckles, when conquered. "Colonel Esmond knocked under to
his fate." --Thackeray.
[1913 Webster]Knock \Knock\ (n[o^]k), v. t.
1. To strike with something hard or heavy; to move by
striking; to drive (a thing) against something; as, to
knock a ball with a bat; to knock the head against a post;
to knock a lamp off the table.
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When heroes knock their knotty heads together.
--Rowe.
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2. To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
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Master, knock the door hard. --Shak.
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3. To impress strongly or forcibly; to astonish; to move to
admiration or applause. [Slang, Eng.]
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4. To criticise; to find fault with; to disparage. "Don't
knock it if you haven't tried it."
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To knock in the head, or To knock on the head, to stun or
kill by a blow upon the head; hence, to put am end to; to
defeat, as a scheme or project; to frustrate; to quash.
[Colloq.] -- To knock off.
(a) To force off by a blow or by beating.
(b) To assign to a bidder at an auction, by a blow on the
counter.
(c) To leave off (work, etc.). [Colloq.] -- {To knock
out}, to force out by a blow or by blows; as, to knock out
the brains.
To knock up.
(a) To arouse by knocking.
(b) To beat or tire out; to fatigue till unable to do
more; as, the men were entirely knocked up. [Colloq.]
"The day being exceedingly hot, the want of food had
knocked up my followers." --Petherick.
(c) (Bookbinding) To make even at the edges, or to shape
into book form, as printed sheets.
(d) To make pregnant. Often used in passive, "she got
knocked up". [vulgar] |
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