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  • noun Plural form of knack.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of knack.

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Examples

  • Every five minutes, one of the principal characters kept using lush adjectives to describe all these they-don't-make-'em-like-that-anymore vintage household items and knick-knacks from the simpler days of yore and going on and on about what exquisite pleasure they afforded the users.

    Archive 2005-07-01 KaneCitizen 2005

  • The "knacks" these witches use, they come from Satan.

    Heartfire Card, Orson Scott 1998

  • Maybe the ministers were not wholly wrong about those with hidden powers-or "knacks," as the Americans quaintly called them.

    Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995

  • Notice the high and pure character of their love as shown in the facts that Florizel did not find it fitting to buy pedler's "knacks" for

    Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies Charlotte Endymion Porter 1900

  • Creativity is not a matter of "knacks," but of discovery and employment of new universal physical principles.

    LaRouche's Latest 2009

  • I think it was the intro to the show that turned me off, with Bradbury writing den and all its knick-knacks out for display.

    Wish List Wednesday #52: Something Wicked This Way Comes 2010

  • I think it was the intro to the show that turned me off, with Bradbury writing den and all its knick-knacks out for display.

    Archive 2010-06-01 2010

  • If you are just concerned about bringing a 'few' things like kitchen equipment, clothes, computers, knick-knacks etc etc and not a bunch of furniture and a 'wood-working shop', you could easily bring that down in your car without any or much trouble nor cost.

    Newbie 2009

  • Having all those CDs, books and knick-knacks showing would take too much space in my mind.

    The Innovative Office | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • Did you know that Dick Cheney collects the healthy organs of children like a woman collects knick knacks?

    Think Progress » Virginians Buck Far-Right Policies Of McDonnell And Cuccinelli 2010

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