knob

Related to knob: Knob and tube wiring

get (one's) knob polished

vulgar slang To have sex or receive oral sex. Typically said of a male ("knob" is a vulgar slang term for the penis). If Brett didn't come home last night, I bet it's because he got his knob polished.
See also: get, knob, polished

ginger knob

vulgar slang A male with naturally red hair. (A reference to his pubic hair, where "knob" is vulgar slang for the penis). Primarily heard in UK, Ireland.
See also: ginger, knob

necker's knob

dated A rounded knob mounted to the steering wheel of an automobile so that it may be steered with one hand. So called because the driver (typically male) is able to place his arm around his girlfriend or wife. My grandfather gave me his old Cadillac, which still had the necker's knob on the wheel from when he first started courting my grandmother.
See also: knob

necking knob

dated A rounded knob mounted to the steering wheel of a car so that it can be steered with one hand. So called because the driver (typically male) is able to place their arm around their romantic partner. My grandfather gave me his old Cadillac, which still had the necking knob on the wheel from when he first started courting my grandmother.
See also: knob, necking

with (brass) knobs on

In a much more extreme form. I've been to both, and I can tell you that Carnival is like Mardi Gras with knobs on. Your report is like my report with brass knobs on—it's 30 pages longer!
See also: knob, on
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

with knobs (or brass knobs) on

and something more. British informal
1998 Pi Magazine But all this would count for zilch if the music didn't stand the test of time. But it does, with knobs on.
See also: knob, on
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

with ˈknobs on

(British English, slang) used to say that something is a more complicated version of what you mention: It isn’t art — it’s just a horror movie with knobs on!
See also: knob, on
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

get one’s knob polished

tv. to copulate or otherwise have sex. (Refers to a male. Usually objectionable.) Man, if you want to get your knob polished, just let me know. I got girls! I got girls you wouldn’t believe!
See also: get, knob, polished
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

necking knob

A swivel on a car's steering wheel. The necking knob enables the driver to steer with his left hand while encircling his girlfriend's shoulder with his right arm. Even when the driver was alone, the knob was an easy way to turn the car in the days before power steering.
See also: knob, necking
Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price
See also:
  • get (one's) knob polished
  • get one’s knob polished
  • polished
  • have sex
  • give (one) head
  • be on the game
  • the sex talk
  • on the game
  • sex machine
  • sex-machine
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Although Indian Knob mountainbalm is considered to be fire-adapted (Wells 1962; USFWS 1994, 1998, 2013b; CDFG 2005), there is no direct evidence because of the absence of recent fire at the known occurrences.
Status of the Endangered Indian Knob Mountainbalm Eriodictyon altissimum (Namaceae) in Central Coastal California
While the Flume Knob break-off and the Bear Den Mountain fork are only a short distance from each other, the choice will yield different hikes and types of views.
INSTANT Adirondacks: Flume Trail Network offers excellent hiking
In 2016 and 2017, Knob Noster students helped the district earn its highest-ever score on the Missouri state annual performance report.
Federal Impact Aid strengthens the military mission: A popular program to assist children of service personnel may be endangered
The next six knobs give users the ability to adjust various colour grading and image-related parameters available on the colour page.
Panel power
The threaded tip of the elevation pinion that screws into the windage knob may become worn of damaged, making windage adjustment difficult or inconsistent.
The m14 rifle: an armorer's perspective: Part IV match tuning the last wood and steel battle rifle
First, you unintentionally chose the wrong knob and second, failed to detect the inadvertent selection.
Runway incursions
Then simply pull up on the spring-loaded knob and move the "2" (in my case since I chose a 200-yard zero) to align with the zero mark on the turret base.
Nikon custom XR turret
The aortic knob can be enlarged due to increased pressure flow in aorta or changes in the elasticity of its wall e.g.
Aortic knob diameter in chest X-ray and its relation with age, heart diameter and transverse diameter of thorax in a population of Bankura district of West Bengal, India: a cross sectional study
The false drawer directly in front of the sink may took naked without any hardware, but its not very comfortable getting poked by a knob in your midsection every time you lean over the sink.
Installing cabinet hardware
Is there something I can buy to fix over the knobs to show me the temperature I am cooking at?
Number's up on my cooker dial; TRICKS of the TRADE
The scope adjusting turret must be rotated 90-degrees counter clockwise to get the windage knob out of the way, making cartridge ejection possible.
New method of scoping the model 94 Winchester
A 6:1 reduction fine focus gear was built into the coarse focusing knob, with a smaller fine focus knob placed just above it.
A 70mm diameter Crayford focuser
Serves 6 Ingredients 1 cup ground cashew nuts 3/4 cup of millet flour 1 can coconut milk 1 knob of melted butter Jaggery 10 whole raisins 2 ground cardamom pods 1 vanila pod 10 whole cashews Method In a bowl, put the ground cashew nut and the millet flou r.
A festival of flavour; Millet pudding
Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.Barker, postdoctoral fellow Sarah Stabenfeldt and School of Computational Engineering graduate student Jared Gossett investigated the interactions between holes and short synthetic peptides modeled after real fibrin knob sequences.
Better Ways to Inhibit Blood Clots Found
Representatives of Environmental Protection Agency Region 4 and North Carolina agencies have met with area residents near the Ore Knob Mine site in Ore Knob to discuss efforts to clean up the site.
EPA, North Carolina meets with residents near Ore Knob Mine site