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Knockabout
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Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. A knockabout performer or performance. [Theat. Slang]
2. A man hired on a sheep station to do odd jobs. [Colloq., Australia]
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
1. Marked by knocking about or roughness.
2. Of noisy and violent character. [Theat. Slang]
3. Characterized by, or suitable for, knocking about, or traveling or wandering hither and thither.
4. That does odd jobs; -- said of a class of hands or laborers on a sheep station. [Collog., Australia]