Meanings
nounknuckler (plural knucklers)
plural knucklers
- slangball gamesA 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
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knuckler. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/knuckler
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“knuckler.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/knuckler. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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