knockabout

How To Use knockabout In A Sentence

• a knockabout old car
• The shape is sophisticated, but still quite knockabout, and the divinely soft calfskin creases in a pleasing way.
• These ranged from the traditional knockabout with a conker on a string, to a conkernut shy, a play on the coconut version, and wingseed throwing.
• Don’t believe you’d care for the kind of knockabout jobs I’ll have to get.” Our Mr. Wrenn
• Behind the day's knockabout lay serious politicking over both policy and personalities.
• In one respect this is all good knockabout stuff. Times, Sunday Times
• It is good knockabout stuff, underpinned by necessary news values and bearing the unmistakable stamp of McKenzie, who seems to have found a métier again after a rather desultory time at Sky.
• This knockabout stuff seems to gee up the team for today's show.
• Even the squatter has a great deal of trouble to get hold of a good man as a shepherd or knockabout hand.
• Remember that we're not talking the stuff of PMQs knockabout on whether to spend a bit more and cut deficits a bit less. Times, Sunday Times