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knuckler

knuckler noun: a knuckleball.

Noun

knuckler (plural knucklers)

  1. (slang) A knuckleball.
    • Fowler flung a stiff-wrist knuckler that hung in the air without spin before it took a sudden dip, but Roy scooped it up with the stick and lifted it twenty rows up into the center field stands.1952, Bernard Malamud, chapter 2, in The Natural

Forms of knuckler

pluralknucklers

Origin of knuckler

From knuckle + -er.

Questions about knuckler

What does knuckler mean?
Knuckler means a knuckleball.
What part of speech is knuckler?
Knuckler is a noun.
What is the plural of knuckler?
The plural of knuckler is knucklers.

Words near knuckler in the dictionary

  1. knuckleheadery
  2. knuckleheadish
  3. knuckleheads
  4. knucklelike
  5. knucklenuts
  6. knuckler
  7. knucklers
  8. knuckles
  9. knuckles down
  10. knuckles to
  11. knuckles under

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