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knock-me-down en · ADJ

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  1. Overbearing; overpowering.
    • And Bloom, of course, with his knockmedown cigar putting on swank with his lardy face. 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
    • ‘I never can think such tremendous, knock-me-down figures in the least degree elegant […].’ 1792, Jane Austen, ‘Lesley Castle’, Juvenilia:

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knock-me-down en · NOUN

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  1. (archaic, slang, uncountable) A 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:

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