Bounder knocked back ale with approval (6)
I believe the answer is:
reebok
'bounder' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'knocked back ale with approval' is the wordplay.
'knocked back' says the letters should be written backwards.
'ale' becomes 'beer' (ale is a type of beer).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'approval' becomes 'ok' (OK is an example).
'beer' backwards is 'reeb'.
'reeb'+'ok'='REEBOK'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for reebok that I've seen before include "African runner" , "South African antelope (E, not H)" , "South African animal" , "Antelope of southern Africa" .)