knock+(noun)

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• knock-on effect — noun a secondary or incidental effect • Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ↑Great Britain • Hypernyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• knock on — noun (rugby) knocking the ball forward while trying to catch it (a foul) • Topics: ↑rugby, ↑rugby football, ↑rugger • Hypernyms: ↑play • Part Holonyms: ↑rugby, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• knock — ► VERB 1) strike a surface noisily to attract attention. 2) collide forcefully with. 3) force to move or fall with a collision or blow. 4) make (a hole, dent, etc.) in something by striking it. 5) informal criticize. 6) (of a motor) make a… …   English terms dictionary

• knock-knock joke — [knock knock joke] noun a type of joke that depends on the way in which some words in English sound like other words. The person telling the joke says ‘Knock knock’, someone answers ‘Who’s there?’, and the first person says a name which isn’t… …   Useful english dictionary

• knock-knock joke — noun One of a class of childish jokes told as a dialog, and usually including a pun, in the following form: : Knock knock. Syn: knock knock …   Wiktionary

• knock-down — UK US US also knockdown) adjective [only before noun] ► extremely cheap or much lower than the usual amount: »a knock down deal/price/rate »They are offering a full broadband internet service for a knock down £17.99 a month. ► very serious and… …   Financial and business terms

• knock-for-knock agreement — UK US noun [C] INSURANCE ► an agreement between insurance companies in which each pays the claims of its own clients following an accident, whether or not their client is to blame …   Financial and business terms

• knock-on — UK US /ˌnɒkˈɒn/ adjective [only before noun] ► causing other events or situations to happen, although not directly: »High petrol prices could be having a knock on effect among manufacturers. »knock on benefits/consequences …   Financial and business terms

• knock-knees — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun plural : knees that approach each other or knock together because of knock knee developed knock knees at an early age …   Useful english dictionary

• knock-off — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun (plural knock offs) Etymology: knock off 1. : the action of knocking off; especially : the automatic coming to a halt of a machine or of a part of a machine through the action of a device actuated when the functioning of the machi …   Useful english dictionary

• knock-down-drag-out — adj [only before noun] AmE informal a knock down drag out argument or fight is an extremely angry or violent one …   Dictionary of contemporary English