knockabout

adjective

Boisterous; rowdy.

adjective

Appropriate for rough wear or use.

noun

A small sloop with a mainsail, jib, and keel but no bowsprit.

Noting something which knocks (other things) about; rough; buffeting; boisterous: as, a knockabout game of foot-ball.

Accustomed to knock about or to be knocked about: as, a knockabout globe-trotter; suitable to be knocked about in: as, a knockabout coat.

Noisy; full of horse-play: as, a knockabout entertainment; knockabout business.

In Australia, applied to a jack of all trades on a station.

noun

A traveler; one who has knocked about.

noun

A performer in a knockabout playorsketch;the sketch itself.

noun

In Australia, a hand on a station who does a little of everything.