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knuckle
noun
physical violence; the act of punching UK
From the verb sense.- It’s all planning and timing and stopwatches. There’s hardly any knuckle at all. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 16, 2001
▶ go the knuckle
to attack with the fists; to take part in a fist fight AUSTRALIA, 1944- That’s when you discovered us. Stacked on a turn. Went the knuckle. Dorabella shot through, abandoning her white bloomers on a low bough. — Jack Hibberd, A Stretch of the Imagination, p. 15, 1971
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 53, 1977
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