Usually means: Intense, fierce, and all-out fight.
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  1. knockdown-dragout: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. knockdown-dragout: Vocabulary.com
  3. knockdown-dragout: Wiktionary
  4. knockdown-dragout: Dictionary.com
  5. knockdown-dragout: Rhymezone
  6. knockdown-dragout: FreeDictionary.org
  7. knockdown-dragout: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. knockdown-dragout: TheFreeDictionary.com

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adjective:  (of a fight or battle) Markedly violent.
noun:  A knockdown-dragout fight; free-for-all

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