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knuckle dusters

knuckle dusters is the plural of knuckle duster.

Meaning of knuckle duster

Noun

knuckle duster (plural knuckle dusters)

  1. (Australia, UK) A weapon made of metal worn around the knuckles that strengthens the impact of a punch.
    • “People like you will always be inferior to people like me ... Get fucking used to it,” the American soldier of fortune tells Leng during one of the film’s final blood-soaked battle scenes, as he prepares to puncture the Chinese hero’s throat with a razor-sharp knuckleduster.2017 September 23, Tom Phillips, “China finds its own Top Gun and Rambo in wave of patriotic movies”, in The Observer, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    brass knuckles

Questions about knuckle dusters

What is knuckle dusters the plural of?
Knuckle dusters is the plural of knuckle duster.

Words near knuckle dusters in the dictionary

  1. knuckle children
  2. knuckle down
  3. knuckle dragger
  4. knuckle draggers
  5. knuckle duster
  6. knuckle dusters
  7. knuckle joint
  8. knuckle joints
  9. knuckle sandwich
  10. knuckle sandwiches
  11. knuckle to

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