knock-downs

Nowadays Molly Malone's is a bona fidedly hip music venue with an expansive stage area, an impressive dinner menu and a respectively spiffed-up decor; back then it was a smoky, scruffy, one-room pub where hard-core drinkers came to suck down Jameson and Black n' Tans and get into knock-downs that ended with sweaty man-hugs and often -- to my mercenary delight -- wads of cash knocked under sticky tables to be found after closing.

Lorraine Devon Wilke: Neil Boyle, Molly Malone's and Pretty in Pink Lorraine Devon Wilke 2011

Nowadays Molly Malone's is a bona fidedly hip music venue with an expansive stage area, an impressive dinner menu and a respectively spiffed-up decor; back then it was a smoky, scruffy, one-room pub where hard-core drinkers came to suck down Jameson and Black n' Tans and get into knock-downs that ended with sweaty man-hugs and often -- to my mercenary delight -- wads of cash knocked under sticky tables to be found after closing.

Lorraine Devon Wilke: Neil Boyle, Molly Malone's and Pretty in Pink Lorraine Devon Wilke 2011

Nowadays Molly Malone's is a bona fidedly hip music venue with an expansive stage area, an impressive dinner menu and a respectively spiffed-up decor; back then it was a smoky, scruffy, one-room pub where hard-core drinkers came to suck down Jameson and Black n' Tans and get into knock-downs that ended with sweaty man-hugs and often -- to my mercenary delight -- wads of cash knocked under sticky tables to be found after closing.

Lorraine Devon Wilke: Neil Boyle, Molly Malone's and Pretty in Pink Lorraine Devon Wilke 2011

Two of the tallest players wait at the near post for flick-ons, with everyone else picking up the space behind and preparing for knock-downs.

Stoke's Ryan Shotton upsets Tottenham's rhythm with his arms and legs | David Pleat 2011

Pavlyuchenko could not anticipate Crouch's knock-downs and he was guilty of misplacing passes to his partner.

Rafael van der Vaart shows Spurs' strikers the way to goal | David Hytner 2011

Nowadays Molly Malone's is a bona fidedly hip music venue with an expansive stage area, an impressive dinner menu and a respectively spiffed-up decor; back then it was a smoky, scruffy, one-room pub where hard-core drinkers came to suck down Jameson and Black n' Tans and get into knock-downs that ended with sweaty man-hugs and often -- to my mercenary delight -- wads of cash knocked under sticky tables to be found after closing.

Lorraine Devon Wilke: Neil Boyle, Molly Malone's and Pretty in Pink Lorraine Devon Wilke 2011

He thus found himself too far away from Carlton Cole to benefit from the striker's knock-downs and not close enough to the wings to exploit the space left by Ashley Cole and Paulo Ferreira as they flew forward.

Victor Obinna gives West Ham hope with striking debut against Chelsea Paul Doyle at Upton Park 2010

Almost everyone is heavy-handed with those on, flash knock-downs happen all the time.

The Shovel and the Epee « Isegoria 2007

Whoever was unable to afford Parisian haute couture was sure to find inexpensive knock-downs two months later at Macys.

Joan Z. Shore: Bring on the Clones! 2008

There were knock-downs and bullying at the DNC ... but we were too busy chirping about who "Obama" would pick for "VP."

Police State In Republican Convention City 2008