knockdown

[US]/'nɒkdaʊn/
[UK]/'nɑk,daʊn/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. extremely low, fierce, detachable
n. the reduction of prices, damage to a ship.

Phrases & Collocations

knockdown price

knockdown furniture

knockdown sale

Example Sentences

He gave me a real knockdown to the company.

Quantitative immunoprecipitation combined with knockdown (QUICK) discriminates between specific and nonspecific interactions with an isolated protein complex.

Real-world Examples

Mariska, 55, explains: I just think life is already hard-there's going to be challenges and knockdowns every day.

Source: People Magazine

Muhammad Ali has won, Muhammad Ali has won by a knockdown.

Source: Sway

The knockdown number is $135,000 per child.

Source: The Practice Season 5

We would get into such knockdowns about the pesto.

Source: 2 Broke Girls Season 5

It's not, it's not to have a knockdown drag out, you know kind of thing.

Source: GQ — Representative Roles of Celebrities

And so they have a nice big two-day knockdown, drag out meeting of the New York Board of Education to decide which code they're going to use in the New York City schools.

Source: 99% unknown stories

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