a judgment of a knockout given when a boxer is in the referee's opinion too badly beaten to continue without risk of serious injury
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tech′nical knock′out, [Boxing.]
- Sportthe termination of a bout by the referee when it is the judgment of the attending physician, a boxer's seconds, or the referee that a boxer cannot continue fighting without sustaining severe or disabling injury. Abbr.: TKO, T.K.O.
- 1945–50
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