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knee-bucklers

knee-bucklers is the plural of knee-buckler.

Meaning of knee-buckler

Noun

knee-buckler (plural knee-bucklers)

  1. (slang) A curveball (or occasionally a knuckleball) that fools the hitter, causing his or her knees to buckle (i.e. bend).
  2. (slang) Anything so stunning as to have a weakening effect on a person.
    • This guy is a sensitive and gentle, yet exciting sex partner, certainly not rough but always leading the dance. She could get weak, just anticipating him, a real knee buckler.2008, Everett Stephenson Jr., Resolution, page 195

Questions about knee-bucklers

What is knee-bucklers the plural of?
Knee-bucklers is the plural of knee-buckler.

Words near knee-bucklers in the dictionary

  1. knee-aches
  2. knee-band
  3. knee-bands
  4. knee-breeches
  5. knee-buckler
  6. knee-bucklers
  7. knee-cap
  8. knee-capping
  9. knee-cappings
  10. knee-caps
  11. knee-cords

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Adapted from Wiktionary: knee-bucklers (page history and authors); knee-buckler (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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