Meanings
plural knuckle dusters · alternative knuckleduster
- AustraliaUKA 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, →ISSNSynonyms: brass knuckles
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA weapon made of metal worn around the knuckles that strengthens the impact of a punch.
More synonyms by meaning
noun(used in the plural) a small metal weapon; worn over the knuckles on the back of the hand
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Cite this entry
knuckle duster. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/knuckle%20duster
“knuckle duster.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/knuckle%20duster. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “knuckle duster,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/knuckle%20duster.
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