0 (especially of a theatre performance) causing laughter by very silly behaviour
It would be wrong, of course, to regard this book as one protracted knockabout performance.
What appeared to be spontaneous and rumbustious knockabout was a carefully controlled interweaving of rhythms and tones.
Unexpected knockabout humour is supplied in the form of woozy clarinet chirps, bells up.
The transition from the knockabout pun on 'interest' to the play's central proposition generates dramatic tension.
Fantasy, atmosphere and knockabout humour abound.
We have had a random knockabout, unfocused and covering at least 20 different subjects, none of which was discussed.
We engaged in some political knockabout on the premise that if one is short of arguments, one should engage in some political banter.
It is disingenuous to suggest that it is anything but knockabout, superficial party politics.
