a knife intended for survival purposes in a wilderness environment, often in an emergency situation when the user has lost other equipment.

A range of practices used by organisations to identify, create, represent, and distribute knowledge.

(UK, slang, vulgar) A severe reprimand, especially one to motivate someone into doing something.

A knot that may be used to keep an object or multiple loose objects together, using a string or a rope that passes at least once around them.

A common binding knot in which the terminal and standing parts are parallel to each other.

Strongly pulled together, tightly knit.

The wide body of information that a person acquires from education and from life, much of which may be trivial.

(Canada, US, slang) An obsequious person that tries to win the favor of someone, usually their superior.

(US, idiomatic, vulgar, colloquial) to flatter or perform favors excessively, especially to receive preferential treatment from a boss or other superior; to behave obsequiously.

(idiomatic, humorous, informal) Synonym of get one's knickers in a twist