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knuckleball

English

Etymology

knuckle +? ball.

Noun

knuckleball (plural knuckleballs)

  1. (baseball) A pitch thrown with the ball gripped on the fingertips and released with no rotation, which travels over an unpredictable path to the plate due to micro-turbulence in the air.
    Even the pitcher doesn't know where his knuckleball is going.
    Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield is best known for his use of the knuckleball.
  2. (figuratively) An event that is hard to predict.
    Our vendor keeps throwing us knuckleballs.

Synonyms

  • (baseball pitch): flutterball, floater, dancer, butterfly ball, ghostball, bug

Translations

Verb

knuckleball (third-person singular simple present knuckleballs, present participle knuckleballing, simple past and past participle knuckleballed)

  1. (intransitive, baseball) To pitch knuckleballs.

Derived terms

  • knuckleballer

See also

knuckleball From the web:

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knucklecurve

English

Etymology

knuckle +? curve

Noun

knucklecurve (plural knucklecurves)

  1. (baseball) A type of pitch with characteristics of both a curveball and a knuckleball.

knucklecurve From the web:

  • what's a knuckle curveball
  • what is knuckle curve
  • what is a knuckle curveball
  • how to throw a knuckle curveball
  • how do you throw a knuckle curveball
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