Definition of "knockabouts" []

• Plural form of knockabout. (noun)

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• "They can include the science-fiction thrillers—more fiction than science—of Kumar, the romances of Ramani Chandran, the detective knockabouts of Pattukottai Prabhakar and Suba, the religious tales of Indira Soundara Rajan and the social dramas of Pushpa Thangadorai."
• ""Fate's irony!" he himself would sometimes say inwardly, with a sidelong glance at Albert, preoccupied with knockabouts or trained dogs."
• "Whin cliver, edjucated knockabouts like Gully du go bad; begob, they make th 'very wurrst kind av criminals."