knee-bucklerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

knee-buckler (複数形 knee-bucklers)

1. (baseball, slang) A curveball (または occasionally a knuckleball) that fools the hitter, causing his or her knees to buckle (i.e. bend).
2. (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.