knuckleball

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A pitch thrown with the ball gripped on the fingertips and released with no rotation, which travels over an unpredictable path to the plate due to micro-turbulence in the air.
    — Even the pitcher doesn't know where his knuckleball is going.
  2. A type of delivery where a fast bowler holds the ball on the knuckles of the index and middle fingers.
  3. An event that is hard to predict. figuratively,informal
    — Our vendor keeps throwing us knuckleballs.
动词 v.
  1. To pitch knuckleballs. intransitive
    — Varitek did not start so Kevin Cash could catch the knuckleballing starter Tim Wakefield.

词形变化

knuckleballs plural knuckleballs present,singular,third-person knuckleballing participle,present knuckleballed participle,past knuckleballed past

词源

词源 1
From knuckle + ball.
词源 2
From knuckle + ball.
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