Associations to the word «Knuckleball»

Wiktionary

KNUCKLEBALL, 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.
KNUCKLEBALL, noun. An event that is hard to predict.
KNUCKLEBALL, verb. (intransitive) (baseball) To pitch knuckleballs.

Dictionary definition

KNUCKLEBALL, noun. A baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin.

Wise words

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery