knock-down-and-drag-out

3 definitions found

knock-down-and-drag-out - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  knock-down-and-drag-out \knock-down-and-drag-out\,
  knockdown-dragout \knockdown-dragout\adj.
     marked by extreme violence; -- of fights; also used
     metaphorically of fierce contests; as, a
     knock-down-and-drag-out fight; a knockdown-dragout
     competition for the browser market.
  
     Syn: ferocious, fierce, knockdown-dragout, tearing.
          [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]

knock-down-and-drag-out - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  knock-down-and-drag-out
      adj 1: extremely violent; "a knock-down-and-drag-out fight"
             [syn: knockdown-dragout, knock-down-and-drag-out]

knock-down-and-drag-out - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "knock-down-and-drag-out":
     affray, altercation, barney, bickering, boisterous, brawl, broil,
     dispute, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, dustup, fight, fracas, fray,
     free-for-all, harum-scarum, hassle, knockabout, melee,
     rambunctious, rampageous, rhubarb, riot, roisterous, rollicking,
     rough, rough-and-tumble, row, rowdy, ruckus, ruction, rumpus,
     run-in, scrap, scrimmage, set-to, shindy, wild