Knuckler
noun, slang
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A knuckleball. 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."
- 2 a baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin wordnet
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From knuckle + -er.