Usually means: Yield or submit under pressure.
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  1. knuckle under: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. knuckle under: Merriam-Webster
  3. knuckle under, knuckle under: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. knuckle under: Collins English Dictionary
  5. knuckle under: Vocabulary.com
  6. knuckle under: Wordnik
  7. knuckle under: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. knuckle under: Wiktionary
  9. knuckle under: Dictionary.com
  10. knuckle under: Rhymezone
  11. Knuckle Under: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  12. knuckle under: FreeDictionary.org
  13. knuckle under: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. knuckle under: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (knuckle under)

▸ verb:  (idiomatic, intransitive) To cooperate or yield when forced or pressured to do so.

Similar:
buckle under, give in, succumb, yield, truck, give way, bend to someone's will, roll over, cough up, knuckle to, more...

Types:
give in, submit, succumb, capitulate, resign, defeat, more...

Adjectives:
off, run, go, put off, quit, to go

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Similar:
buckle under, give in, succumb, yield, truck, give way, bend to someone's will, roll over, cough up, knuckle to, more...

Types:
give in, submit, succumb, capitulate, resign, defeat, more...

Adjectives:
off, run, go, put off, quit, to go



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