Definition of "knockabout" in English

adjective

1. Boisterous

2. Suitable for rough use.

   • I have a knockabout cello for non-concert gigs.

noun

1. Clothing suitable for rough use.

2. A worker habitually engaged in casual employment.

3. A person living in rough, violent conditions.

4. (circus) A tumbler.

5. (entertainment) A slapstick comedian or comedy.

6. (sailing) A small sailboat lacking a bowsprit, of a type found primarily in the Massachusetts area.

   • We sailed our knockabout around Cape Cod.

7. (sports, informal) An act of playing a sport casually or informally.

   • The kids had a knockabout with a football in the backyard.