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  • plural of knuckle.
  • present tense form of knuckle (3rd person singular).

knuckles

NOUN
brass knuckles
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When it looked like my knuckles would punch holes in it, I plopped it down.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

“Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor, palms calloused from delivery bike handlebars, knuckles scarred with kitchen burns: These are not hands that have been allowed to hold power,” he said.

From Salon Nov. 6, 2025

Mr Teller said the name was also inspired by the distinctive pale "knuckles" on the small leg-like appendages at the side of the spider's mouth.

From BBC Oct. 30, 2025

Combatants try to get any edge they can in the contests, which can be painfully hard on the knuckles.

From Barron's Oct. 17, 2025

Klaus stepped forward and knocked on Count Olaf’s door, his knuckles rapping right in the middle of the carved eye.

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket




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