A knockabout overcoat. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Sir Alex Ferguson's side a real end of term knockabout feel and even less incentive for the neutral to tune in tonight. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The vaudeville act of "The Fighting Keatons" concentrated almost completely on the category known as knockabout farce. From Wordnik.com. [Instant Education] Reference
Don't believe you'd care for the kind of knockabout jobs I'll have to get. ". From Wordnik.com. [Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man] Reference
Don’t believe you’d care for the kind of knockabout jobs I’ll have to get.”. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mr. Wrenn] Reference
Party knockabout, personalities and lack of content. From Wordnik.com. [Final Tory Tabloid from Norwich North] Reference
At length they reached the side of the swamped knockabout. From Wordnik.com. [A Fool There Was] Reference
Blogging is a knockabout sport, and as a writer I'm fair game. From Wordnik.com. [More on (Did He Say "Moron"?) Book Reviewing] Reference
Statesman (Cameron) met knockabout blustering politician (Brown). From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
We do like our politicians to be ordinary, knockabout blokes - and women. From Wordnik.com. [What I cooked last night.] Reference
Sure, it's satire, but the detail screams of authentic knockabout city life. From Wordnik.com. [Two Views Of London] Reference
There was no animus beyond the usual political knockabout directed at Obama. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
Thog and sarcobatus had the usual knockabout fun with the story and I forgot about it. From Wordnik.com. [August 31st, 2009] Reference
Nice knockabout stuff, but the underlying agenda is serious – "Europe" is no-go territory. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
The problem is that it's all a bit knockabout - an pointers to anything a bit more sustained?. From Wordnik.com. [The Grand Theory of All Thought: Blending] Reference
Blake held the knockabout to its course, with the confidence of youth in his prowess, against them. From Wordnik.com. [A Fool There Was] Reference
The sharply written and arch In Bruges follows knockabout hit men Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. From Wordnik.com. [Thelma Adams: Sundance Dispatch: Boyz in the Sno Hood] Reference
Having settled myself, or my property rather, I put on my knockabout clothes and went out for a walk. From Wordnik.com. [MY LODGING AND SOME OTHERS] Reference
I like knockabout debate, but this is becoming so mean-spirited that the debate itself gets pushed out. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Most of his backbenchers, and his grassroots, will be looking for a morale boosting, knockabout speech. From Wordnik.com. [What's the right response to boredom?] Reference
That is, Gayle bats in test matches in much the same way as normal cricketers approach a Twenty20 knockabout. From Wordnik.com. [Graeme Swann Takes the New Ball] Reference
Brown managed to raise the tone from low political knockabout to the loftier region of international relations. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
There is still a corner of the party that prefers the knockabout fun of opposition to the hard grind of governing. From Wordnik.com. [Romance and flummery in bling heaven] Reference
Despite the deliberately knockabout, throwaway humour of his prose, Jacobson sets out their stalls with great care. From Wordnik.com. [The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson] Reference
That has led to much knockabout over rules that say cooked chicken is taxable above a certain temperature but not below. From Wordnik.com. [Journal for 14 June 1999] Reference
But Into the Heart of Borneo (the very title is mock-solemn) is a learned and sensitive book as well as knockabout farce. From Wordnik.com. [Traveling Light] Reference
To my mind, the funniest one is the knockabout Love at First Bite, starring George Hamilton as Count Dracula in New York. From Wordnik.com. [Vampires Suck – review] Reference
In the meanwhile, far out on the sound, the little knockabout was heeling far over in the playful breath of the summer breeze. From Wordnik.com. [A Fool There Was] Reference
There was no knockabout business; nobody entered the room with a somersault, tripped over a pin or hung his hat on the scenery. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914] Reference
Not knowing how formal the hotel dining room might be, he packed good shins and a summer blazer as well as knockabout clothing. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Came To Breakfast]
Leonard introduced them to a young fellow named Weathers who was performing at the Tivoli as an acrobat and knockabout artiste. From Wordnik.com. [Dubliners] Reference
A knockabout farce featuring bumbling Stasi Officers falling over and breaking their recording equipment cannot be too far behind. From Wordnik.com. [dry your eyes darlin' it's ok - meet me on the dual carriageway] Reference
But the table itself is too small to become a sweaty bed or sacrificial altar of Elmire's virtue, too ungenerous for knockabout farce. From Wordnik.com. [A Million Tartuffes Later, Is Moli��re Still Breathing?] Reference
But the V&A's curator of popular entertainment, Cathy Haill, said children saw it for what it was - knockabout humour that makes you laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Punch & Judy archive is centrestage at V&A. Oh yes it is] Reference
Not the knockabout or the mickey-taking but the serious business of News Corp's likely purchase of the 61% of BSkyB it doesn't already own. From Wordnik.com. [Edinburgh wasn't about TV, it was all about Murdoch] Reference
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