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

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. Researcher Lee Woods:

   It's either 6 toes, which is a deformity, or it's a hand, and that's the knuckles, researcher Lee Woods's knuckle-dragging.

2. 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.

3. Chuck Grassley:

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

4. Jeff Gordon:

   Spectators need to understand how white-knuckle an experience it is, how mentally draining and how not fun it is, i would rather watch those races than participate in them.

5. 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.