Crossword clues for knucklehead
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"stupid person," 1890, American English, from knuckle (n.) + head (n.).\n\n"That infernal knuckle-head at the camp ought to have reported before now," he thought to himself, as he smoked.
[Charles H. Shinn, "The Quicksands of Toro," in "Belford's Magazine," vol. V, June-November 1890, New York]
\nFrom 1869 as the name of a part in a type of mechanical coupling device. Popularized in the "stupid person" sense from 1942, from character R.F. Knucklehead, star of "Don't" posters hung up at U.S. Army Air Force training fields.\n\nEverything Knucklehead does is wrong and ends in disaster. He endures one spectacular crash after another so that the students at the Gulf Coast Air Force Training Center may profit by his mistakes, and it looks now as if there will be no let-up in his agony.["Life," May 25, 1942]
Wiktionary
n. An idiot; a stupid or inept person
WordNet
n. these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence [syn: dunce, dunderhead, numskull, blockhead, bonehead, lunkhead, hammerhead, loggerhead, muttonhead, shithead, fuckhead]
Wikipedia
Knucklehead is a Canadian punk rock group formed in Calgary, Alberta in 1994. Influenced by such punk groups as Bad Religion, Stiff Little Fingers, Cocksparrer, Billy Bragg and Social Distortion, Knucklehead is uses fast tempo rhythms and chant choruses. Knucklehead uses socio-political themes in a number of their songs.
Knucklehead may refer to:
- A racist or neo-Nazi Skinhead (Australian punk scene slang)
- Harley-Davidson Knucklehead engine, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle engine
- Knucklehead (band), a Canadian punk rock group formed in Calgary, Canada in 1994
- Both mascot and the hard-core fans of the band Five Finger Death Punch
- Knucklehead (film), a 2010 film produced by WWE Studios
- "Knucklehead", B-side on the 1967 single " Soul Finger" by The Bar-Kays
- "Knucklehead", song by Grover Washington, Jr., from the 1975 album Feels So Good
- Knuckleheads, 2008 platform game by Nitrome Limited
- Knuckleheads Indoor Amusement Park, at Wisconsin Dells Parkway, Lake Delton, Wisconsin
- Knuckleheads Saloon, Kansas City, Missouri (where Karla Bonoff, Leon Redbone, and others have appeared)
Knucklehead is a lowbrow comedy film starring Big Show (Paul Wight), Stuart Pointer, Melora Hardin and Dennis Farina. It was released on October 22, 2010 in select theaters and garnered negative reviews from critics finding fault in the film's premise, its execution and for being entirely cliché. The DVD was released on November 9, 2010.
Critical reaction was unanimously negative, and the film was a box office bomb. Dennis Farina later called it "the most embarrassing project I've ever been a part of".
"Knucklehead" is a 2016 American drama film directed by Ben Bowman. It premiered at the 2015 Brooklyn Academy of Music New Voices in Black Cinema festival.
Usage examples of "knucklehead".
What kind of a knuckleheaded dimwit drove down a private drive like the flames of hell licked at their heels?
There was wealth here, and for those nimble and talented enough to be a scrimshander, someone who could transform the ivorylike bone of a knucklehead trout into an artistic carving, a comfortable living could be made with a minimum amount of work.
He thought he had found his niche, a comfortable existencemore comfortable still with the aid of the stolen ruby pendantin a lucrative career as a scrimshander, carving the ivorylike bone of the knucklehead into marvelous little trinkets.
In close quarters he suffered their backwoods lubricity and knucklehead talk.
These knuckleheads wanted to show how ornery they could be if anybody tried to interfere with them.
This fellow was the second person who turned me on to Macintoshes, by the way, and through the mid-1980's we had shared the thrill of being high-tech cognoscenti, using superior Apple technology in a world of DOS-using knuckleheads.
That knucklehead Ruski admiral is gonna get a baseball rammed so far up his ass he’ll be pitching it out of his mouth.