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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation technical knockout

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  • initialism boxing technical knockout
  • initialism medicine "to keep open", an indication for the insertion of an intravenous catheter

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  • noun a knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue

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Examples

  • I'm ending voting early on the last round, we have two winners in TKO's:

    MORE FIRST ROUND ACTION 2008

  • I'm ending voting early on the last round, we have two winners in TKO's:

    Not Larry Sabato: 2008

  • The fight was called a TKO win for Brown, but Faber still believes it was stopped too early and he was still defending himself at the time of the stoppage.

    Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines 2010

  • Wether you think the ref should have called a TKO or not is irrelevant as the opinion of those who make the esb rankings hold no bearing whatsoever on the ref's final decision which led to a wide UD for Bute.

    East Side Boxing 2009

  • But the TKO was the description of the subversion of the materialist paradigm!

    HogwartsProfessor.com 2008

  • It was aired live to Thailand and will be shown on a delayed basis on CCTN Ch 47's Saturday afternoon boxing program "TKO".

    PhilBoxing.com - XML News RSS/RDF Feed 2009

  • The ultimate goal, he said, is to get Shawn a "TKO", by graduating from college.

    Iowa State Daily 2008

  • In the episode entitled "TKO", series creator J. Michael Straczynski put a Zima neon sign in the bar at the Zocalo, the central shopping area on the station.

    Latest Articles 2008

  • Gertner's MySpace page and discovered his song, "TKO," which could, quite possibly, feature the worst passion talking ever: "Come here.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • Gertner's MySpace page and discovered his song, "TKO," which could, quite possibly, feature the worst passion talking ever: "Come here.

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

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