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  • noun Plural form of knee-cap (alternative spelling of kneecaps).

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Examples

  • When his knees were bared, Saxon could see the skin across the knee-caps was broken and gone.

    CHAPTER XIII 2010

  • Ludmilla Zinoviev, she of the huge knee-caps, paraded about with the giant tuber as if it were a delicate baby, instead of the glorious fruit of collective agriculture that it is!

    Diary of a Bolshoi Potato Dancer Con Chapman 2011

  • Ludmilla Zinoviev, she of the huge knee-caps, paraded about with the giant tuber as if it were a delicate baby, instead of the glorious fruit of collective agriculture that it is!

    Diary of a Bolshoi Potato Dancer Con Chapman 2012

  •  Ludmilla Zinoviev, she of the huge knee-caps, paraded about with the giant tuber as if it were a delicate baby, instead of the glorious fruit of collective agriculture that it is!

    Diary of a Bolshoi Potato Dancer 2010

  • "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross."

    Sole Music 2010

  • Running from the mob, but with more than his knee-caps to lose...they want his soul.

    work in progress - 'FRANK" Neil Colquhoun 2009

  • Yesterday he saw some one riding by on horseback who had on knee-caps, and he said, “What has he got on his knees?”

    Les Miserables 2008

  • September 2, 2008 at 2:53 pm kittehs hab knee-caps? i nebber knowed taht.

    Lift with your knees, they said… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • If companies decided to swindle us out of money, the three highest paid officers would have their knee-caps broken.

    "McCain — more of a gambler than Obama — could take a big risk." Ann Althouse 2008

  • If the person water-boards or knee-caps a person, or buries them alive, if it's to get information -- well, that's just dandy.

    Aziz Huq: Junking Checks and Balances? 2008

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