TKO
UK/ˈtiː ˈkeɪ ˈəʊ/US/ˈti ˈkeɪ ˈoʊ /
TKO is the initialism of Tseung Kwan O.
TKO is the initialism of technical knockout.
TKO is the initialism of to keep open.
Meaning of Tseung Kwan O
Proper noun
Tseung Kwan O
- An area and town in Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
- Separately, a recently completed consultancy study has recommended the provision of 22 ha of land in the southeastern part of Hong Kong at Tseung Kwan O for deep waterfront industries, high value-added chemical processing, and manufacturing of bulk chemical storage facilities.1996, Yip Chi Wai, “Hong Kong”, in Developing Supporting Industries in Asia-Pacific, Tokyo: Asian Productivity Organization, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 86
- A bay in Sai Kung district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
- 9. Port Shelter. Good anchorage for any size of ships. Chiefly useful as being deep close to shore, and divided from Tseung Kwan O by a small neck of land ¼ miles wide.1899, Commander de Horsey, R.N., Report on the Harbours in Mirs Bay
Meaning of technical knockout
Noun
technical knockout (plural technical knockouts)
- A knockout declared by a referee in cases where a participant is sufficiently injured, unbalanced, or confused and unable to continue the fight
Forms of TKO
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Questions about TKO
- What is TKO the initialism of?
- TKO is the initialism of Tseung Kwan O.
- How do you pronounce TKO?
- TKO is pronounced /ˈtiː ˈkeɪ ˈəʊ/ (UK).
Words near TKO in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: TKO (page history and authors); Tseung Kwan O (page history and authors); technical knockout (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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