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. Emma Shaw:

   The word loyalist is always portrayed in a really negative light, 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. 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.

4. Ian Russell:

   The anti-science, knuckle-dragging -- if not anti-vax, certainly vaccine-skeptic -- wing of the Republican Party that's on the rise these days, that's not how you win a general election, president Joe Biden needs Covid to be in the rearview mirror by the height of the election season next year in the midterms, so we've got to do everything we can -- within the bounds of reason -- to lower Covid cases so that we can fully reopen the economy, fully reopen schools and just be done with this. A vaccine mandate is a tool that President Joe Biden has to accomplish that goal of getting Covid in a rearview mirror.

5. 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.