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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

knock-down-and-drag-out

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01 adj. marked by extreme violence; -- of fights; also used metaphorically of fierce contests; as, a knock-down-and-drag-out fight; a knockdown-dra…
  1. 1.
    marked by extreme violence; -- of fights; also used metaphorically of fierce contests; as, a knock-down-and-drag-out fight; a knockdown-dragout competition for the browser market.
Syn. ferocious, fierce, knockdown-dragout, tearing.