knock-me-down

noun

A strong alcoholic drink.

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Meanings

nounknock-me-down (uncountable)
  1. archaicslanguncountableA strong alcoholic drink.

    His mother didn't have the price of a bed, and so she crept into the outbuilding, the labor pains coming like blows to the groin, a bottle of clear white Knock-Me-Down clutched in her fist.

    1982, T. C. Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 34
adjectiveknock-me-down (comparative more knock-me-down, superlative most knock-me-down)

comparative more knock-me-down · superlative most knock-me-down

  1. Overbearing; overpowering.

    And Bloom, of course, with his knockmedown cigar putting on swank with his lardy face.

    1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
    1 more example

    ‘I never can think such tremendous, knock-me-down figures in the least degree elegant […].’

    1792, Jane Austen, ‘Lesley Castle’, Juvenilia
Cite this entry
APA

knock-me-down. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/knock-me-down

MLA

“knock-me-down.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/knock-me-down. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “knock-me-down,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/knock-me-down.

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