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Definition of knock (one's) lights out
knock (one's) lights out
verb - intransitive
- to punch someone until they are unconscious.
Last edited on Aug 31 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 31 2009.
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| Definitions include: a life during which many bad things happen. | |
| Definitions include: to impregnate. | |
| Definitions include: variant of "knock around". | |
| Definitions include: to mistreat. | |
| Definitions include: to drink. | |
| Definitions include: to have sexual intercourse. | |
| Definitions include: to impress. | |
| Definitions include: A formal introduction- | |
| Definitions include: stolen. | |
| Definitions include: In a deep sleep. | |
| Definitions include: Also the past tense of "knock up". | |
| Definitions include: adverb - really, very, conveying a sense of the extreme. | |
| Definitions include: stop. | |
| Definitions include: Used to describe sex. | |
| Definitions include: a forgery. | |
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Other terms relating to 'light': | |
| Definitions include: slang for Bhangra (an Indian dance where the hands are raised in the air in a twisting motion). | |
| Definitions include: to imitate competitors. | |
| Definitions include: to approve a plan. | |
| Definitions include: a girl that flashes her breasts 2. a girl who is loose or acts like she is all that. | |
| Definitions include: erect nipples. | |
| Definitions include: it's the end / death of something. | |
| Definitions include: alive but brain-dead. | |
| Definitions include: commonly used southern US term (Louisiana) means closed. | |
| Definitions include: time to go to bed. | |
| Definitions include: to set flame to a smoking device, such as a cigarette or pipe. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "lights on but nobody home", an insulting notation used by doctors in the UK on medical charts. | |
| Definitions include: "Natural Light" beer. | |
| Definitions include: deeply asleep. | |
| Definitions include: an area of a town where the prostitutes are. | |
| Definitions include: When a woman is on her period. | |
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Other terms relating to 'out': | |
| Definitions include: the feeling when you defecate huge and your anus is stretched. | |
| Definitions include: fatigued after amphetamine use. | |
| Definitions include: very; really; extremely. | |
| Definitions include: in an irreparably bad situation; "out of luck"; "screwed". | |
| Definitions include: Slang for having a shit. | |
| Definitions include: to get someone out of jail by posting bail. | |
| Definitions include: to tell on someone; "snitch". | |
| Definitions include: a session of getting baked (i.e. high from marijuana.) | |
| Definitions include: to leave. | |
| Definitions include: also balls to the wall. | |
| Definitions include: to hit or cause bodily injury. | |
| Definitions include: to study to excess or to be over-competitive in school-work. | |
| Definitions include: to beat severely. | |
| Definitions include: to beat severely. | |
| Definitions include: to violently beat. | |
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