English
Noun
en-noun
- An event that is hard to predict.
#: Our vendor keeps throwing us knuckleballs.
#baseball A pitch thrown with the ball gripped on the fingertips and released with no rotation which travels over a unpredictable path to the plate due to micro-turbulance 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.
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