What does knee cap mean?
Knee cap means (anatomy) The flat, roundish bone in the knee..
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/ˈniːˌkæp/ · noun
(anatomy) The flat, roundish bone in the knee..
The Sinn Féin press officer Richard McAuley freely admitted, “Back four or five years ago, people were getting kneecapped who should not have been kneecapped.”
This story of how American originality lost its way is arresting and well told. On an alternate timeline without Donald Trump in office dismantling the American scientific establishment and Elon Musk kneecapping the American state, it might have been the manifesto of a new politics.
Use knee cap when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Knee cap means (anatomy) The flat, roundish bone in the knee..
Common synonyms include kneepan, patella, rotula, scutum.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The Sinn Féin press officer Richard McAuley freely admitted, “Back four or five years ago, people were getting kneecapped who should not have been kneecapped.”
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