"knockback" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "knock + back",
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  "etymology_text": "knock + back",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "knockbacks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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      "expansion": "knockback (plural knockbacks)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Kelley Armstrong, Broken, unnumbered page",
          "text": "He lifted his hand in a knockback spell, which would send me sailing right into the zombie.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A blow that causes the recipient to fall or move backwards, a knock back; a recoil."
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          "back",
          "back"
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          "recoil",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Lee Hobin, God, Why Are You Being So Cruel?, page 188",
          "text": "[…]the chemo had not worked and had gone back into his brain.[…]He had knockback after knockback. It would have taken its toll on anyone.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 September 22, Clive Nicholls, “National Rail Awards 2021”, in RAIL, number 940, page 35",
          "text": "Despite all the knockbacks from COVID, as an industry we are ready for the turnaround and more than ready to welcome back passengers returning from lockdown.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Something that impedes or reverses progress; a setback."
      ],
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          "setback",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He got a few knockbacks today when he tried to give his resume out at the local shops."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, Rupert Lockwood, War on the Waterfront: Menzies, Japan, and the Pig-Iron Dispute, page 199",
          "text": "The only other knockback in the Port Kembla-Wollongong district was from Benny Westwood of the Advance Tyre Service. He, too, ordered us off the premises.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1995, Heather Hogarth, Your First Job: Getting It, Keeping It, and Going Further, MacMillan Education Australia, page 82,\nSo you′ve had a knockback. All right, we don′t all get the first job we apply for."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Chris Rau, Dealing With the Media: A Handbook for Students, Activists, Community Groups and Anyone Who Can′t Afford a Spin Doctor, page 3",
          "text": "They asked matter-of-fact questions about harrowing tales that the victims had been trying to tell other media outlets, only to receive knockback after knockback for more than a year.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Tony Parsons, Tony Parsons on Life, Death and Breakfast, unnumbered page",
          "text": "Nicole Kidman got a knockback because Su-Man was too busy whipping a certain Oscar-winning French actress into shape.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A rejection; a refusal."
      ],
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      "links": [
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          "rejection",
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        [
          "refusal",
          "refusal"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, Australia, informal) A rejection; a refusal."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "UK",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "knock-back"
    }
  ],
  "word": "knockback"
}

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        "3": "back"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "knock + back",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "knockbacks",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, Kelley Armstrong, Broken, unnumbered page",
          "text": "He lifted his hand in a knockback spell, which would send me sailing right into the zombie.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "A blow that causes the recipient to fall or move backwards, a knock back; a recoil."
      ],
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          "knock",
          "knock"
        ],
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          "back",
          "back"
        ],
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      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Lee Hobin, God, Why Are You Being So Cruel?, page 188",
          "text": "[…]the chemo had not worked and had gone back into his brain.[…]He had knockback after knockback. It would have taken its toll on anyone.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 September 22, Clive Nicholls, “National Rail Awards 2021”, in RAIL, number 940, page 35",
          "text": "Despite all the knockbacks from COVID, as an industry we are ready for the turnaround and more than ready to welcome back passengers returning from lockdown.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something that impedes or reverses progress; a setback."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "setback",
          "setback"
        ]
      ]
    },
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        "Australian English",
        "British English",
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        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He got a few knockbacks today when he tried to give his resume out at the local shops."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, Rupert Lockwood, War on the Waterfront: Menzies, Japan, and the Pig-Iron Dispute, page 199",
          "text": "The only other knockback in the Port Kembla-Wollongong district was from Benny Westwood of the Advance Tyre Service. He, too, ordered us off the premises.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1995, Heather Hogarth, Your First Job: Getting It, Keeping It, and Going Further, MacMillan Education Australia, page 82,\nSo you′ve had a knockback. All right, we don′t all get the first job we apply for."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Chris Rau, Dealing With the Media: A Handbook for Students, Activists, Community Groups and Anyone Who Can′t Afford a Spin Doctor, page 3",
          "text": "They asked matter-of-fact questions about harrowing tales that the victims had been trying to tell other media outlets, only to receive knockback after knockback for more than a year.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Tony Parsons, Tony Parsons on Life, Death and Breakfast, unnumbered page",
          "text": "Nicole Kidman got a knockback because Su-Man was too busy whipping a certain Oscar-winning French actress into shape.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A rejection; a refusal."
      ],
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          "rejection",
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        ],
        [
          "refusal",
          "refusal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, Australia, informal) A rejection; a refusal."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "UK",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "knock-back"
    }
  ],
  "word": "knockback"
}