Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mech., a releasing device; a tappet or cam for releasing some part of a mechanism. It is used in some forms of engine valve-gears to operate the admission-valves.
- noun The device by which the loops of yarn are knocked off or drawn over the ends of the needles in a knitting-machine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mach.) Act or place of knocking off; that which knocks off
- noun A
knockoff . - adjective That knocks off; of or pertaining to knocking off.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
knockoff .
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Examples
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His work became synonymous with comic fantasy, and he seemingly illustrated every sub-par Pratchett knock-off on the shelves, but we weren't fooled - oh, no.
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And Lorne Greene played Adama as if he was starring in a Biblical epic and not a Star Wars knock-off.
REMINDER: Battlestar Galactica Series Finale Airs Tonight 2009
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The two minute plus clip shows that this series is definitely not the Jericho knock-off that many thought it would be.
12 « July « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009
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Overall, The Listener has its moments, but it needs to rise above the formulaic procedural stories to become anything more than a derivative television knock-off.
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He then graduated from this to the Lincoln Newspaper Syndicate working on knock-off comic strips.
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He then graduated from this to the Lincoln Newspaper Syndicate working on knock-off comic strips.
The Kirby Files: From American Dream to American Dissolution, Part 1 2009
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Overall, The Listener has its moments, but it needs to rise above the formulaic procedural stories to become anything more than a derivative television knock-off.
25 « June « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009
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On other commercial issues, the U.S. is pressing China to provide a specific plan for how government agencies and state-owned businesses will buy legitimate software, not knock-off versions.
U.S. Presses China for Deals Bob Davis 2011
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He then graduated from this to the Lincoln Newspaper Syndicate working on knock-off comic strips.
24 « July « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009
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Stan Lee was known as a hack writer producing mostly second-rate, knock-off stories for the struggling Atlas line of comics.
07 « August « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009
sakhalinskii commented on the word knock-off
To silence.
July 31, 2008
nycanthro commented on the word knock-off
In noun form it signifies an imitation product, generally of lesser quality.
March 4, 2009