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Denby tags the Fox News screamer Bill O'Reilly as a boorish knuckle-dragger, but his liberal counterpart Keith Olbermann is something else entirely: "One can't help but noticing ... that Olbermann's tirades are voluminously factual, astoundingly syntactical ... and always logically organized."

—Steve Sailer's iSteve Blog

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noun One that drags.
noun A boat equipped to tow fishing gear, such as a trawl net, along the bottom of the sea.

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Sometimes I'd have a knuckle-dragger who hated being with a woman. — The Vanished Man
For instance, she wanted to train in a tail-dragger. — Muller, Marcia - [20] - While Other People Sleep
New pilot who's never flown a tail-dragger before. — Muller, Marcia - [20] - While Other People Sleep
Perhaps the point was to reveal a stark difference between the average reasonable Democrat and the typical hard right, jingo knuckle-dragger, since I guess the most popular right-wing talk radio responses would be something like: — Matthew Yglesias
The Joffre fished with tub trawls, or hooks, until 1939, when it was converted to a motorized eastern rig dragger, a type of trawler, NOAA said in a statement. — Boston.com Most Popular