Knock-down-and-drag-out

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "knock-down-and-drag-out":
     affray, altercation, barney, bickering, boisterous, brawl, broil,
     dispute, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, dustup, fight, fracas, fray,
     free-for-all, harum-scarum, hassle, knockabout, melee,
     rambunctious, rampageous, rhubarb, riot, roisterous, rollicking,
     rough, rough-and-tumble, row, rowdy, ruckus, ruction, rumpus,
     run-in, scrap, scrimmage, set-to, shindy, wild