technical knockout

1. 1.

   a knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue

   SynonymsTKO

   Broaderknockout

Questions about technical knockout

What does technical knockout mean?

technical knockout means "a knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue".

What is another word for technical knockout?

Close synonyms include TKO. 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 technical knockout a common word?

technical knockout 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.