knockabout

About 0.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Boisterous
2. adjective Suitable for rough use.

   I have a knockabout cello for non-concert gigs.

3. noun Clothing suitable for rough use.
4. noun A worker habitually engaged in casual employment.
5. noun A person living in rough, violent conditions.
6. noun A tumbler.
7. noun A slapstick comedian or comedy.
8. noun A small sailboat lacking a bowsprit, of a type found primarily in the Massachusetts area.

   We sailed our knockabout around Cape Cod.

Similar words

boisterous rugged spirited sloop knockaround knocky ruckusy tory-rory roisterous raucous

Often followed by

farce comedy club humour stuff and in fun act

Word family

knockabouts