Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A stupid person; a blockhead.
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- noun An
idiot ; astupid orinept person
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence
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Examples
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Last year, she might have 10 of what I call knucklehead plays a game.
NYT > Home Page By JERÉ LONGMAN 2010
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One of these days, some knucklehead is going to get his instructions right.
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Who's the freakin 'knucklehead that suggested Dolph Lundgren?
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I think the best indicator is a level of respect was not only when they earned the moniker knucklehead, but Elena earned her own personal nickname of Shorty from him.
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Nothing else could explain why Bush hasn't fired this knucklehead from the Department of Children & Families, where Regier has served two damaging years as secretary.
August 2004 2004
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One of the many reasons I don’t want to be a rightwing knucklehead is that I would have to hate most everything created by human culture.
Matthew Yglesias » Breaking: Michelle Obama Reads Books 2010
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One of the many reasons I don’t want to be a rightwing knucklehead is that I would have to hate most everything created by human culture.
Matthew Yglesias » Breaking: Michelle Obama Reads Books 2010
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Hope you don’t mind if I borrow that name till that scatterer-brained knucklehead is tossed out.
Quote of the Day, Sarah Palin edition. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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Note that this doesn’t dodge the dumb-ass rebuttal that some knucklehead is sure to post, to the effect ‘no, d-uh, MattY just meant we need to pass better laws ….’
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Hendry and Piniella would like, and they're going to have to pay him all of the $45 million left through 2012 that Hendry guaranteed him in August 2007, when Zambrano - by then well-known as a knucklehead - was essential to the team's success.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
infostyx commented on the word knucklehead
chucklehead's twin brother
August 25, 2007
skipvia commented on the word knucklehead
A person of low intelligence. See Knuckle Up.
February 12, 2008