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knock-outnounAlternative form of knockout. [The act of making one unconscious, or at least unable to come back on one's feet within a certain period of time; a TKO.]
knockoutnounThe act of making one unconscious, or at least unable to come back on one's feet within a certain period of time; a TKO.
knockbacknounSomething that impedes or reverses progress; a setback.
knock-backnounAlternative form of knockback. [A blow that causes the recipient to fall or move backwards, a knock back; a recoil.]
knock-down-drag-outnounAlternative form of knockdown-dragout. [Of a fight or battle, markedly violent.]
knocknounAn abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against wood.
knock-down-and-drag-outnounAlternative form of knockdown-dragout. [A knockdown-dragout fight; a free-for-all.]
downstrikenounA blow by a hand or weapon that occurs with a downward striking motion.
slapdownnounAn instance of slapping down, especially a humiliation or rejection.
knockdown-dragoutnounA knockdown-dragout fight; a free-for-all.
takedownnounEnforced removal of material from a website, etc.
technical knockoutnoun(martial arts) A knockout declared by a referee in cases where a participant is sufficiently injured, unbalanced, or confused and unable to continue the fight
finishernounA person who finishes or completes something.
throwdownnoun(slang) A fight or brawl; or, a challenge or incitement to fight.
king-hitnounA powerful punch; a knockout blow.
detonationnoun(chemistry) An explosion or sudden report made by the near-instantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances. Specifically, combustion that spreads supersonically via shock compression.
sunday punchnounA knockout blow; a mighty or devastating blow.
death knocknoun(journalism) The journalistic practice of visiting people related to somebody who has died, in order to gather information about the deceased and the manner of death.
drop attacknoun(medicine) A person's unexpected fall to the ground, without loss of consciousness, associated with neurological dysfunction.
slammingverbThe act of something being slammed.

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