Synonyms for Knuckle
ˈnʌk əlknuck·le

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:2.7 / 3 votes

1. knuckle, knuckle joint, metacarpophalangeal jointverb

   a joint of a finger when the fist is closed

   Synonyms:
   metacarpophalangeal joint, knuckle joint, hinge joint, knuckle

2. knuckleverb

   press or rub with the knuckles

3. knuckleverb

   shoot a marble while keeping one's knuckles on the ground

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Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. knuckleverb

   Synonyms:
   yield (obsequiously), submit, cringe, stoop, crouch, give up, KNOCK UNDER

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1. Emma Shaw:

   And that's really frustrating for me, because it's always like,' loyalists, or knuckle draggers, they're in the past, they don't want society to move forward.' And that actually couldn't be further from the truth, especially in regards to the women.

2. Shelly Finkel:

   Deontay broke his right hand behind the third knuckle and he has to have that fixed next week, he has to have surgery, the knuckle is OK, it’s the bone behind the knuckle that broke. He’s sore but he was OK, he was home yesterday.

3. The Orchard -RRB- Young:

   After a terrible flight, I had what I thought was a bad back cramp, he’s like, ‘Get on the ground. I know how to handle cramps. Don’t worry.’ He puts his knuckle on my ribs, and all of a sudden, whatever pain I had moved over to the other side of my body. So then he goes, ‘Let’s go to the hospital.’ It ends up being a blood clot. So Bob Saget saved my life. But he almost nearly killed me by sending it to the other side of my lung when he put his knuckle in it.

4. Chuck Grassley:

   They see a story of kid glove treatment for one side and bare-knuckle tactics for the other.

5. Kim Jong:

   If it (the United States) keeps thinking that way, it will never be able to move the DPRK even a knuckle nor gain any interests no matter how many times it may sit for talks with the DPRK.