dragout

• Seated at the kitchen table, he poured himself a minimal brandy, opened the latest copy of Snide and learned that Dr. Tench Armstrong, vacationing at Lake Garda, had received a summons to appear in court for what the paper clearly hoped would be a knockdown-dragout over the terms of his divorce Both parties (it smirked) have been hiring PIs and the gumshoes have found out a lot. —  FSF, August 2006
• But the dragout Jeremiah Wright bloviating was okay? —  eat drink one woman
• And to give that kind of field position in a knockdown dragout game like that, —  Eleven Warriors

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