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Knuckler

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin wordnet

Etymology

From knuckle + -er.

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