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knock (about)verb to move about from place to place aimlesslywe knocked about from town to town, looking for work bat, cruise, drift, float, gad (about), gallivant(also galavant), kick around, maunder, meander, mooch, ramble, range, roam, rove, traipse, wander amble, saunter, strolldawdle, mopegypsy, hobo, tramp, vagabondmill (about or around)straggle, stray knockaboutadjectivebeing rough or noisy in a high-spirited waya knockabout game of football in the mud boisterous, hell-raising, rambunctious, raucous, robustious, roisterous, rollicking, rowdy, rumbustious(chiefly British) callithumpian, carnival, carnivalesque, larrikin(chiefly Australian), raffish, rampageous, riotous, rowdyish, ruffianlystormy, tempestuous, turbulent, violentheadstrong, intractable, obstreperous, recalcitrant, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, undisciplined, ungovernable, uninhibited, unmanageable, unreserved, unrestrained, unruly, wild, willful(or wilful)bubbly, buoyant, effervescent, exuberant, high-spirited, impassioned, lively, sprightly, vivaciousclamorous, loudmouthed, noisy, openmouthed, rackety, strident, vociferoushowling, screaming, yelling wild and woolly orderly sedate, sober, solemn, somber(or sombre), staiddecorous, dignified, proper, seemlycalm, hushed, noiseless, peaceful, placid, quiet, restrained, serene, silent, soundless, tranquilcollected, composed, constrained, controlled, imperturbable, inhibited, repressed, self-controlled, unflappable, unruffledmoderate, reasonable, subdued, temperateimpassive, phlegmatic, stoic(or stoical), stoliddepressedaloof, detached, indifferent knockaboutnouna person who roams about without a fixed route or destinationthe book is one writer's journey of self-discovery as a restless knockabout drifter, gadabout, gypsy, maunderer, nomad, rambler, roamer, rover, stroller, vagabond, wanderer, wayfarer laggard, stragglerlingerer, loiterer, sojournerbum, hobo, tramppassenger, sightseer, traveler(or traveller)migrant, transient, vagrantambler, saunterer bird of passage homebodydenizen, dweller, habitant, inhabitant, resident, settler in 1880 |