Talk:knuckleballer
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Rfv-sense: (baseball, humorous) A knuckleball.
google books:"threw|throw|thrown|throws|throwing a knuckleballer" gets no hits; the one non-book hit it picks up is "I still have serious doubts that the Red Sox would feel comfortable throwing a knuckleballer on the mound in the playoffs, but they may have no better choice." is the other sense of knuckleballer (does throw cover this by the way?) Renard Migrant (talk) 20:34, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
- None of the instances in the Google news archives of knuckleballer referred to the pitch; they all referred to the pitcher. DCDuring TALK 20:47, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
- I'll add the sense of throw, which is hard to cite because it's chiefly used with the person's name, and I can't Google the name of every pitcher ever with 'throw' in front of it. I've added one cite to Citations:throw. Renard Migrant (talk) 16:34, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
- How about 'throw * "up against"'? Other prepositions or adverbs might also make sense with the putative sense of throw. DCDuring TALK 18:35, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
- If you can have placeholder terms in Google searches, "throw [placeholder] out of the bullpen" would probably do it. Renard Migrant (talk) 16:18, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
- The "*" is a kind of placeholder, but can include some number of tokens, perhaps 3-10. DCDuring TALK 17:40, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
- If you can have placeholder terms in Google searches, "throw [placeholder] out of the bullpen" would probably do it. Renard Migrant (talk) 16:18, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
- How about 'throw * "up against"'? Other prepositions or adverbs might also make sense with the putative sense of throw. DCDuring TALK 18:35, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
- I'll add the sense of throw, which is hard to cite because it's chiefly used with the person's name, and I can't Google the name of every pitcher ever with 'throw' in front of it. I've added one cite to Citations:throw. Renard Migrant (talk) 16:34, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 19:36, 30 May 2017 (UTC)