Hard Knock

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
HK
Pronunciation
/hɑrd nɑk/
Category
Miscellaneous
Related Field
Unclassified

Examples in Context

  1. When something interrupts the memory-storage process – like a hard knock to the head – newly formed memories aren't stored for the long run and you can't remember things that just happened.
  2. We had the grenades, but it is very hard to knock out a tank with a hand grenade!
  3. As a bitter winter storm rages on the east coast, its hard to knock being warm-blooded.
  4. The rock is too hard for us to knock it down.
  5. And as he continued to strike and force, coolly estimating the weight of his blows and the quality of the damage wrought, he realized how hard a man Sandel was to knock out.

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