Usually means: Unpredictable, slow pitch with flutter.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. knuckleball: Merriam-Webster
  2. knuckleball: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. knuckleball: Collins English Dictionary
  4. knuckleball: Vocabulary.com
  5. knuckleball: Wordnik
  6. knuckleball: Wiktionary
  7. knuckleball: Dictionary.com
  8. Knuckleball (cricket), Knuckleball, Knuckleball: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. knuckleball: Rhymezone
  10. knuckleball: FreeDictionary.org
  11. knuckleball: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. knuckleball: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. knuckleball: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Knuckleball: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Knuckleball: Sports Definitions

(Note: See knuckleballer as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (knuckleball)

noun:  (baseball) A pitch thrown with the ball gripped on the fingertips and released with no rotation, which travels over an unpredictable path to the plate due to micro-turbulence in the air.
noun:  (cricket) A type of delivery where a fast bowler holds the ball on the knuckles of the index and middle fingers.
noun:  (figurative, informal) An event that is hard to predict.
verb:  (intransitive, baseball) To pitch knuckleballs.

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