knock-down-drag-out

[nok-doun-drag-out] /ˈnɒkˌdaʊnˈdrægˌaʊt/

adjective

marked by unrelenting violence:

a knock-down-drag-out fight.

Also, knock-down, drag-out; knock-down-and-drag-out.

Origin

1820-30; adj. use of verb phrases knock down and drag out

Examples from the web for knock-down-drag-out

One moment the two lovers were walking happily along, the next they erupt-ed into a knock-down-drag-out argument.

Slang definitions & phrases for knock-down-drag-out

adjective phrase

Very violent; unrestrained; all-out: They were having a knock-downdrag-out argument when I got there

noun

: Seems the neighbors were having a knockdown-drag-out (1827+)