knee-buckler
English
Noun
knee-buckler (plural knee-bucklers)
- (baseball, slang) A curveball (or occasionally a knuckleball) that fools the hitter, causing his or her knees to buckle (i.e. bend).
- (slang) Anything so stunning as to have a weakening effect on a person.
- 2008, Everett Stephenson Jr., Resolution (page 195)
- This guy is a sensitive and gentle, yet exciting sex partner, certainly not rough but always leading the dance. She could get weak, just anticipating him, a real knee buckler.
- 2013, Erik Schubach, Music of the Soul (volume 1)
- “Hi, Jimmy!” His friends stared back and forth between him and myself with their mouths open. Bella smiled a patented knee buckler at him.
- 2008, Everett Stephenson Jr., Resolution (page 195)