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knock-me-down

knock-me-down noun: a strong alcoholic drink.

Noun

knock-me-down (uncountable)

  1. (archaic, slang) A strong alcoholic drink.
    • His mother didn't have the price of a bed, and so she crept into the outbuilding, the labor pains coming like blows to the groin, a bottle of clear white Knock-Me-Down clutched in her fist.1982, T. C. Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 34

Adjective

knock-me-down (comparative more knock-me-down, superlative most knock-me-down)

  1. Overbearing; overpowering.
    • ‘I never can think such tremendous, knock-me-down figures in the least degree elegant […].’1792, Jane Austen, ‘Lesley Castle’, Juvenilia
    • And Bloom, of course, with his knockmedown cigar putting on swank with his lardy face.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses

Forms of knock-me-down

comparativemore knock-me-down
superlativemost knock-me-down

Questions about knock-me-down

What does knock-me-down mean?
Knock-me-down means a strong alcoholic drink.
What part of speech is knock-me-down?
Knock-me-down can be a noun or an adjective.

Words near knock-me-down in the dictionary

  1. knock-knock joke
  2. knock-knock jokes
  3. knock-knocked
  4. knock-knocking
  5. knock-knocks
  6. knock-me-down
  7. knock-off
  8. knock-offs
  9. knock-on
  10. knock-on effect
  11. knock-on effects

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