knob

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/nɒb/

noun 5verb 3

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

door

control, volume

She turned the volume knob on the radio to make the music louder.

VERB + KNOB

adjust, fiddle with, touch, turn, twiddle

She turned the knob on the radio to find her favorite station.

KNOB + VERB

adjust sth, control sth

PREP

~ on

She turned the knob on the door and stepped into the quiet hallway.

Definitions

noun

A rounded protuberance, especially one arising from a flat surface; a fleshy lump or caruncle.

A rounded control switch that can be turned on its axis, designed to be operated by the fingers.

A ball-shaped part of a handle, lever, etc., designed to be grabbed by the hand.

A rounded ornament on the hilt of an edged weapon; a pommel.

A prominent, rounded bump along a mountain ridge.

verb

protrude

furnish or produce with a knob, knobble

To have sex with.

One morning, maybe three weeks after my last grapple with Penny, Thomson came roaring into our form room. ‘Oi, Fleming, you spastic. Guess who I knobbed last night?’

Had Jack knobbed her as well? Molly wondered.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a circular rounded projection or protuberance

boss

noun — an ornament in the shape of a ball on the hilt of a sword or

pommel

noun — any thickened enlargement

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

necker's knob

Synonym of Brodie knob.

You remember the necker's knob on your high school jalopy?

ginger knob

A male redhead; a ginger-haired male.

Example Bank

We climbed to the top of Slate Hill, the highest knob in our town, and Ricky gave me a whole talk on how slate formed, how it was and was not shale.

Wiktionary

Arthur slammed his fist down on the table so hard, the cup jumped, spilling coffee. The rotten bastard means to have the guvnor’s guts. That fucking knob has never been on a live deployment in his ent

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[…] He must really hate those people!” my father said in an all-too audible aside to Mom. “I don’t hate them, you stupid knob!” Critch said. It’s you and your whole kind I hate!”

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One morning, maybe three weeks after my last grapple with Penny, Thomson came roaring into our form room. ‘Oi, Fleming, you spastic. Guess who I knobbed last night?’

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Had Jack knobbed her as well? Molly wondered.

Wiktionary

Turn the knob and open the door.

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, knob is marked as slang, vulgar, British. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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