knockabout

• amble
• ambler
• bat
• bird of passage
• boisterous
• bubbly
• bum
• buoyant
• callithumpian
• carnival
• carnivalesque
• clamorous
• coarse
• crass
• crude
• cruise
• dawdle
• drift
• drifter
• effervescent
• exuberant
• float
• gadabout
• galavant
• gallivant
• gypsy
• hard
• headstrong
• hell-raising
• high-spirited
• hobo
• howling
• impassioned
• intractable
• kick around
• laggard
• larrikin
• lingerer
• lively
• loiterer
• loudmouthed
• maunder
• maunderer
• mean
• meander
• migrant
• mooch
• mope
• nasty
• noisy
• nomad
• obstreperous
• openmouthed
• passenger
• rackety
• raffish
• ramble
• rambler
• rambunctious
• rampageous
• range
• raucous
• raw
• recalcitrant
• riotous
• roam
• roamer
• robustious
• roisterous
• rollicking
• rough-and-tumble
• rove
• rover
• rowdy
• rowdyish
• ruffianly
• rugged
• rumbustious
• saunter
• saunterer
• screaming
• sightseer
• sojourner
• sprightly
• stormy
• straggle
• straggler
• stray
• strenuous
• strident
• stroll
• stroller
• tempestuous
• tough
• traipse
• tramp
• transient
• traveler
• traveller
• turbulent
• uncontrollable
• uncontrolled
• undisciplined
• ungovernable
• uninhibited
• unmanageable
• unpolished
• unrefined
• unreserved
• unrestrained
• unruly
• vagabond
• vagrant
• violent
• vivacious
• vociferous
• wander
• wanderer
• wayfarer
• wild
• wild and woolly
• wilful
• willful
• yelling

• aloof
• calm
• collected
• composed
• constrained
• controlled
• decorous
• denizen
• depressed
• detached
• dignified
• dweller
• gentle
• habitant
• homebody
• hushed
• impassive
• imperturbable
• indifferent
• inhabitant
• inhibited
• kind
• moderate
• nice
• noiseless
• orderly
• peaceful
• phlegmatic
• placid
• proper
• quiet
• reasonable
• repressed
• resident
• restrained
• sedate
• seemly
• self-controlled
• serene
• settler
• silent
• sober
• solemn
• somber
• sombre
• sophisticated
• soundless
• staid
• stoic
• stoical
• stolid
• subdued
• temperate
• tranquil
• unflappable
• unruffled

• noun
  1. A small sailboat lacking a bowsprit, of a type found primarily in the Massachusetts area.
  2. (entertainment) A slapstick comedy or comedian.
  3. (circus) A tumbler.
  4. Clothing suitable for rough use.
  5. A worker habitually engaged in casual employment.
  6. A person living in rough, violent conditions.
• adjective
  1. Boisterous.
  2. Suitable for rough use.

• The play was a knockabout comedy full of slapstick humor and physical gags.
• They enjoyed a knockabout style of wrestling that was both rough and entertaining.
• His knockabout personality made him the life of every party.
• The film’s knockabout scenes had the audience laughing from start to finish.
• Despite the knockabout nature of their friendship, they cared deeply for each other.

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