TKO
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- noun
- Jargon
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TKO
- Jake Paul won the match by TKO after the referee stopped the fight in the fourth round.
- 11th-round TKO
- seventh-round TKO
- round TKO
You can win by TKO, you can submit them, or you can win by decision.
- You can win by TKO, you can submit them, or you can win by decision.
- And there's a lot of TKO's in there, but there's maybe four or five knockouts.
- versus me in a tiny pair of swim shorts and I lost first round TKO.
- You see New York after I lost, right, I get for the third time lose to this guy second time by knockout of TKO.
Examples
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The winner by TKO, still undefeated, George Foreman!
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Georges St. Pierre by TKO, round 2.
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Jake Paul, TKO in the fourth round.
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One by decision, the other by TKO.
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You can win by TKO, you can submit them, or you can win by decision.
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Wood won the bout by TKO in the second round.
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Wood won by TKO in 4:22 in the second round.
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Winner by TKO, Hoagie "Cheap Shot" Parker.
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Prediction: Patrick Cote by TKO in the first round.
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Adonis Johnson, a little-known boxer being trained by Rocky Balboa handed light heavyweight title contender Leo Sporino a second-round TKO defeat in Philadelphia last night.
Synonyms
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A fight stopped by the referee because one fighter cannot continue safely
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Etymology
The word TKO is short for technical knockout. 'Technical' here means 'official' or 'for safety' and 'knockout' means 'one fighter cannot continue', so a TKO is when the referee stops the match to protect a boxer.