bare knuckle
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.18 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
verb
Example Sentences
- "As a former four-time bare knuckle UFC veteran, and MMA veteran Hall of Fame coach of the year, I know they are effective and valuable to any person as a form of self defense, whether experienced or novice."
- "I crave the softness of human touch, rather than the bone-crushing feel of bare knuckle fighting."
- "The skill demonstrated in, for example, bare knuckle boxing is not a compelling reason to accept the risk of permanent damage to oneself or another."
- "But aggressive management maneuvers like that were missing from the paper's speculations (10/25/95) about labor's return to "bare knuckle tactics.""
- "This raises a third and final question: How should basic research be saved in a world of bare knuckle competition?"
- "Indeed, to understand airline predation, one might ask Vanguard, Sun Jet International and Western Pacific (all named in the case as suffering from American's actions) whether they felt the sting of that bare knuckle competition."
Inflected Forms
more bare knuckle (comparative)
most bare knuckle (superlative)
bare knuckles (present, singular)
bare knuckling (participle, present)
bare knuckled (participle, past)
bare knuckled (past)