It doesn't only mean Knock Out. It also means Kilobyte=Ko.
Ko is very familiar. A largefile is 12 737 Ko.
Ko is Coca Cola's symbol on the stock market. Ko is the name of many companies including Ko and Co (Ko and Company).
KO are some people's initials. KO is a good blog from Pakistan. Ko is now very much open to interpretations but the first ones are Knock Out (KO) as in boxing or as in a gorgeous person and Kilobyte (Ko) as in 1000 Ko will make 1 Mo. When you're sending a 12 737 Ko file, you're in trouble because servers will stop you, it's too heavy. Please add on to the meaning of Ko.
Imagine someone's initials being PS (Patricia Smith) or NB (Norman Brown) or CC (Carmen Constanza)or C/O:care of (Claude Otterburg). I believe our initials define us in a way...
A greeting. Drunken email from employee to employer regarding failure to show up for work resulted in the query "ko?" instead of "ok?" Time has eroded the original meaning to a greeting, after months of harrassment insued where the entire workplace greeted the unfortunate employee with "ko!" every morning.
(1) This is when you are invited to a friends wedding and RSVP that you will be there. Then, at the last minute, don't attend his wedding, rather you go to another friends wedding in another town.(e.g. Arizona) THEN, when it comes time for you to get married, you don't invite that person to your wedding. a.k.a. Micked
"Dave, whats up with this shit. I just heard I got Micked from Kevin's wedding. Actually T-bone, you got KO'ed."