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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(baseball) 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.
Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield is best known for his use of the knuckleball.
Our vendor keeps throwing us knuckleballs.
Varitek did not start so Kevin Cash could catch the knuckleballing starter Tim Wakefield.
Use knuckleball when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Knuckleball means (baseball) 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..
Common synonyms include flutterball, floater, dancer, butterfly ball.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Even the pitcher doesn't know where his knuckleball is going.
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