knockdown-dragout

1. 1.

   extremely violent

   “a knock-down-and-drag-out fight”

   Synonymsknock-down-and-drag-out

   Similarviolent

   colloquialism

Questions about knockdown-dragout

What does knockdown-dragout mean?

knockdown-dragout means "extremely violent".

How many syllables are in knockdown-dragout?

knockdown-dragout has 4 syllables: knock-down--dra-gout. The stress falls on "down-".

What is another word for knockdown-dragout?

Close synonyms include knock-down-and-drag-out. 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.

Is knockdown-dragout a common word?

knockdown-dragout is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.