knuckleball

Meaning of knuckleball

noun
  1. 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.
    Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield is best known for his use of the knuckleball.
  2. An event that is hard to predict.
    Our vendor keeps throwing us knuckleballs.

verb

To pitch knuckleballs.

Information about knuckleball

  • The plural form of knuckleball is: knuckleballs.
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Hyphenation of knuckleball

knuck-le-ball

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • knuckleball is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

knuckleball synonyms

Meaning knuckler:

knuckler

Meaning :

bug, dancer, floater

Words that rhyme with knuckleball

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