knuckler

English

Etymology

knuckle +‎ -er

Pronunciation

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Noun

knuckler (plural knucklers)

1. (baseball slang) A knuckleball.
   • 1952, Bernard Malamud, chapter 2, in The Natural:

     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.

See also

• curveball
• slider
• fastball
• cut fastball
• two-seam fastball
• split-finger fastball
• sinker
• screwball