knockdown-dragout

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knockdown-dragout - 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]

knockdown-dragout - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

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