k.o. v.1
to knock out, lit. or fig.
![]() | Colonel’s Dream 28: So when I got my laig kyo’ed up [...] I come back hyuh whar I wuz bo’n. | |
![]() | Sel. Letters (1981) 136: You coud have KO’ed me with the proverbial pinion. | letter 6 Dec. in Baker|
![]() | Ten-and-out! 156: After his losing fight against the champion, Sharkey rested [...] then got back into the ring again. He thrashed and kayoed Goddard. | |
![]() | Babe Gordon (1934) 75: Bearcat’s manager K.O.’s romance for the big Bearcat. | |
![]() | There Ain’t No Justice 39: I kayoed him easy. | |
![]() | N.Y. Age 15 Nov. 9/5: He in turn was k.o.’d, floored. | ‘Observation Post’ in|
![]() | Sun (Sydney) 12 Aug. 8/3: Once he kayoed her in the street. | |
![]() | For the Rest of Our Lives 333: 75 tanks KO’d. | |
![]() | Harder They Fall (1971) 174: One of the guys he kayoed [...] damn near died. | |
![]() | Illus. 30 Dec. 28: We lose our only world title when Freddie Mills is k.o’d by [Joey] Maxim. | |
![]() | Corner Boy 199: You were kayoed when the opening bell went off. | |
![]() | Whistle in the Dark Act I: And Hugo struck and then, / Upon the floor, all K.O. dead, / Were the bloody Englishmen! | |
![]() | World’s Toughest Prison 806: kayoe – To achieve unusual success. | |
![]() | Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1973) 47: Watson was kayoed which made it a very bitter night. | |
![]() | Batman No. 251 10: The idiot – I’m the only thing between him and a coffin, and he kayoes me! | |
![]() | Hot to Trot 193: A bee sting has swollen [...] my lip. I’m as puffed and hideous as a KO’d fighter. | |
![]() | Up the Cross 75: Brucie the Rooster duly kayoed his cheese, Maureen, by suggesting [...] ‘a romantic little boat trip’. | (con. 1959)|
![]() | Tommyknockers (1989) 123: The huge brainless grin of a KO’d fighter just before his knees come unhinged. | |
![]() | Homeboy 97: Quick Cicero’s heart and soul were kayoed. | |
![]() | Et Tu, Babe (1993) 23: No matter how many pugs he KO’d in the ring [...] there was always a beautiful woman struggling to emerge. | |
![]() | Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 130: The Darb nearly got kayoed by that lemonade bottle. | |
![]() | I, Fatty 265: Maybe I was the only man in America secretly glad when the market got kayoed. |