What is "kneecap"

Usage examples of "kneecap".

When he had finished telling Bardo that he had descried signs he would be a pilot, that it was his fate, he sat back on his heels and winced at the sharp, tearing pain beneath his kneecaps.

The instant his father closed with his first opponent, Conn whirled and kicked the nearest Witchman on the kneecap.

I pushed with my right knee against the back of one of his kneecaps and he buckled.

They were a good five feet away from his kneecaps and three feet away from the truck.

And then, you too might find yourself accoutered in a belt of cured skin with a knobby kneecap buckle.

If he was barreling down the runway at two hundred miles an hour, completing the takeoff run, and the board started lighting up red, should he (a) abort the takeoff (and try to wrestle with the monster, which was gorged with jet fuel, out in the sand beyond the end of the runway) or (b) eject (and hope that the goddamned human cannonball trick works at zero altitude and he doesn't shatter an elbow or a kneecap on the way out) or (c) continue the takeoff and deal with the problem aloft (knowing full well that the ship may be on fire and therefore seconds away from exploding)?

For example, Zim could have feinted at one of them, bounced fast to the other with a disabler, such as a broken kneecap then finished off the first at his leisure.

Amazing, the persuasive powers of a two-pound ball-peen hammer applied to a kneecap.

She was sleeping in a foetal bundle: white cotton nightie, kneecaps for breasts, her little brown thumb planted tritely in her mouth.

A nurse led Charlie through to a cubicle where an elderly man in a long white coat made him strip to the waist, cough, stick out his tongue and breathe heavily before prodding him all over with a cold rubber object He then proceeded to stare into Charlie's ears and eyes before going on to hit his kneecaps with a rubber stick.

Two minutes later, before people had even strapped in, the pilot of the National Emergency Airborne Command Post - Kneecap - firewalled his engines and roared down runway, Zero-One Left.

When all four were on line, they'd stage a conference call with the Vice President, who was still aboard Kneecap.

Not until the carbon-mesh-reinforced toe of Greg's desert boot smashed into his kneecap.

The kneecap swelled up until it was as round as one of her breasts and as tight as a devil drum.

Many's the Trough-man who's alive today, with sane spirit and functioning kneecaps, on account of how he had time to slip into the maze back of the taproom before the newly-arrived grudge holder, enforcer, bill collector, feudist, outraged (and-now-armed) victim, disgruntled husband, insensate father, insensate mother, insensate wife, insensate you-name-it, serial killer, homicidal maniac, gibbering lunatic or evangelist had time to spot him in the throng and nail him.