knocketh

Verb

knock (third-person singular simple present knocks, present participle knocking, simple past and past participle knocked)

1. (intransitive) To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood.
   • Knock on the door and find out if they’re home.
2. (dated, transitive) To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door.
   • Master, knock the door hard.c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
3. (colloquial, transitive) To criticize verbally; to denigrate; to undervalue.
   • Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it.
4. (transitive) To kick a ball towards another player; to pass.
5. (transitive) To hit a ball into play.
   • Despite enjoying more than their fair share of possession the visitors did not look like creating anything, with their lack of a killer ball painfully obvious as they harmlessly knocked the ball around outside the home side's box without ever looking like they would hurt them.2011 January 11, Jonathan Stevenson, “West Ham 2 – 1 Birmingham”, in BBC Sport
6. (UK, dated, slang, transitive) To impress forcibly or strongly; to astonish; to move to admiration or applause.

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