knuckler
nounEtymology From knuckle + -er.
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Ball games, Baseball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports 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:
- Related terms
- curveball, slider, fastball, cut fastball, two-seam fastball, split-finger fastball, sinker, screwball