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knock-me-down
noun 1adj 1
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4ADJ.
clear, tremendous, white
VERB + KNOCK-ME-DOWN
think
PREP.
in
ADV.
such
Definitions
noun
1
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.
adj
1
Overbearing; overpowering.
‘I never can think such tremendous, knock-me-down figures in the least degree elegant […].’
And Bloom, of course, with his knockmedown cigar putting on swank with his lardy face.
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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.
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‘I never can think such tremendous, knock-me-down figures in the least degree elegant […].’
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And Bloom, of course, with his knockmedown cigar putting on swank with his lardy face.
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