knock-down-and-drag-out

1. 1.

   extremely violent

   “a knock-down-and-drag-out fight”

   Synonymsknockdown-dragout

   Similarviolent

   colloquialism

Questions about knock-down-and-drag-out

What does knock-down-and-drag-out mean?

knock-down-and-drag-out means "extremely violent".

How many syllables are in knock-down-and-drag-out?

knock-down-and-drag-out has 5 syllables: knock--dow-n-and--dra-g-out. The stress falls on "n-and-".

What is another word for knock-down-and-drag-out?

Close synonyms include knockdown-dragout. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.