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knuckle-dusters

/nuhk-uhl-duhs-ter/US // ˈnʌk əlˌdʌs tər //

扳道员,扳道器,扳道工,扳道机

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : brass knuckles.

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Examples

  • The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, my third book, changed my life and put me on bare-knuckle terms with my abilities.

  • If you think of yourself as more than a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal, you can stand up and be respectful.

  • How could it be that this word, and not “what” or “why,” has caused a bare-knuckle brawl at such a stratospheric social level?

  • So I put on a white duster and a straw hat and I crashed through the door into the meeting and jumped up on the conference table.

  • I like the term knuckle dragger, but I don't want to cast any undeserved slurs at Neanderthals.

  • Edna was sitting on the tabouret, idly brushing the tips of a feather duster along the carpet when he came in again.

  • He had their undivided attention in a moment, without the rapping of Miss Carringtons hard knuckle on the table top.

  • Bobby said that that knuckle of Gee Gees middle finger had been abnormally developed by continued bringing the class to order.

  • Again the man stops at my door, his head turning right and left, the while he diligently plies the duster.

  • By chance he heard us warned for guard, and at once went to his tent and returned with a ham knuckle.