knock-knock

A verbal emulation of a knocking sound.

A phrase used in lieu of knocking on a door.

Used to introduce a knock-knock joke.

Knock-knock. / Who's there? / Wendy. / Wendy who? / Wendy you want to open the door?

To make such a sound, as by knocking on (something).

Formally, the poll tax will die today, but it will carry on knock-knocking from the grave.

The reporter also knock-knocked his house.

Such a sound.

For the Philharmonic and its subscribers, the essential thing was to get the acoustics right, which is a task of near impossible complexity. What kind of space can do justice, say, to the plunks and skittering knock-knocks in Lou Harrison’s Concerto in Slendro and also to the sustained, exalted moan of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony?

There are few solid leads, but the possibility of "the wood," a front-page tabloid story, drives him as he makes seemingly fruitless knock-knocks in the neighborhood. "We don't have an address, we don't know if it's racial," he explains to the camera.

Synonym of knock-knock joke.

In the spirit of Tom Swifties and knock-knocks, John W. Little 2d has invented a word game called the Bridge of Sys.

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