knuckler

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.22 in modern English

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noun

Slang

"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."

From knuckle + -er.

knucklers (plural)

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