knockabout

Example Sentences

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His adaptation maintains a knockabout, almost farcical pace.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

It's tremendous knockabout stuff, but it rather overestimates the scale of the challenge Scotland have faced when playing against England in the Townsend era.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2026

It’s sweet and serious, and as the series goes on, knockabout comedy makes room for poignancy.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2024

The son of a butcher who had fled Nazi Germany, Mr. Caan grew up in the 1940s and 1950s on the knockabout streets of the outer boroughs of New York.

From Washington Post • Jul. 7, 2022

Like we was old knockabout friends of the streets.

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman