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knucks

NOUN
brass knuckles
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Last pound, knucks, or high five: Daniel Castillo or Yoon Sul-I can't remember.

From Time Magazine Archive

The rules of knucks up, with marbles, vary greatly.

From Harper's Round Table, August 27, 1895 by Various

The young man from Mechanicsville found the lawyer in the street playing "knucks" with a troop of children and laughing heartily at the fun they were all having.

From The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln by Wayne Whipple

Anyhow, they were out for success and scraps and scads, and they tackled the city like two Lochinvars with brass knucks and a pull at the City Hall.

From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by O. Henry

Very well," was the significant remark of my friend, "I know of a few knucks who are in town, and whom you were the means of burning out a few months since.

From The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia by James Wells Champney




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