Definition of "knock-about" []

• Attributive form of knock about (noun)

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• "Such exchanges are not uncommon in The Big C, the new US comedy-drama in which a repressed teacher decides to view her inoperable cancer as a sort of Chessington World of Melanomas: madcap self-reinvention by the sea lion enclosure; knock-about biopsies behind the eastern-themed log flume."
• "Both are clad decently, in knock-about business suits and starched collars, cuffs, etc."
• "I like a good, rugged knock-about, so I'm going to pick the ol. 30-30 Winchester."