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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

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 Henry, O.

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 Whipple, Wayne

Next they got their marbles and played "knucks" and "ringtaw" and "keeps" till that amusement grew stale.

From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 4. by Twain, Mark




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