knock down
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See also: knockdown
Pronunciation
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Verb
knock down (third-person singular simple present knocks down, present participle knocking down, simple past and past participle knocked down)
- To hit or collide with
- (transitive) To hit or knock (something or someone), intentionally or accidentally, so that it falls.
- As I took the can off the shelf, I knocked down the one beside it.
- 2012, Ingrid Michaelson (lyrics and music), “This Is War”, in Human Again:
- I won't surrender / I will fight better / You lock me out, you knock me down / But I will find my way around
- (transitive) To demolish.
- We knocked down the garden shed when we moved.
- (transitive, informal) To reduce the price of.
- They knocked it down by another £5, so we bought it.
- (transitive, usually passive voice) To disassemble for shipment.
- The furniture is shipped knocked down, so assembly is required.
- (transitive) To hit or knock (something or someone), intentionally or accidentally, so that it falls.
- To acquire money, especially illicitly
- (transitive) To accumulate money, usually through crime.
- (transitive) To embezzle.
- To drink or party
- (transitive, informal) To drink fast.
- I love to go down the pub and knock down pints of lager.
- (transitive, slang, Australia) To spend extravagantly for a celebration.
- (transitive, informal) To drink fast.
- To choose, declare or approve.
- (transitive) To approve a drinking toast by banging glasses on the table.
- 1954, H. C. N. de Lanerolle, "Well, Mudaliyar!" and Other Plays (page 179)
- They click their glasses and knock down the toast.
- 1954, H. C. N. de Lanerolle, "Well, Mudaliyar!" and Other Plays (page 179)
- (transitive, archaic) To nominate (someone) to speak.
- (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To introduce (someone) to another, especially to a woman.
- (transitive) To reject or override a decision.
- The judge knocked the award down to a half-million.
- (transitive) To sentence (someone) to prison or other sentence.
- (transitive) At an auction, to declare (something) sold with a blow from the gavel.
- The picture was knocked down for £50.
- (transitive) To approve a drinking toast by banging glasses on the table.
- (dated, trains) To send a stop signal to ensure a train is signalled to stop at the correct point.
Synonyms
- (hit or knock (something) so that it falls): knock over
- (demolish): demolish, destroy
- (declare something sold at an auction with a blow from the gavel): sell
- (reduce the price of): reduce
Translations
hit or knock (something) so that it falls
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demolish — see demolish
declare something sold at an auction with a blow from the gavel
References
- (approve a toast by banging glasses on the table): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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