The Collaborative International Dictionary
knock-down-and-drag-out \knock-down-and-drag-out\, knockdown-dragout \knockdown-dragout\adj. marked by extreme violence; -- of fights; also used metaphorically of fierce contests; as, a knock-down-and-drag-out fight; a knockdown-dragout competition for the browser market.
Syn: ferocious, fierce, knockdown-dragout, tearing.
WordNet
adj. extremely violent; "a knock-down-and-drag-out fight" [syn: knockdown-dragout]
Usage examples of "knock-down-and-drag-out".
Not being the absolute dictator of the company that the news media make me out as, I had several knock-down-and-drag-out fights behind the scenes, getting this or that operation okayed and holding it on track.
I know Peter well enough to know that when it comes to standing up to a real knock-down-and-drag-out fight, he won't do it.