Definitions
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- n. A form of locomotion of some primates in which they move on all fours with pressure being taken by the knuckles.
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Examples
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Our earliest primate ancestors were no exception, whether moving in trees or knuckle-walking on the ground.
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Lovejoy's analysis also shows that the bones in Ardi's hands and wrists were not adapted to knuckle-walking, a style of movement common to gorillas and chimpanzees, and assumed to have been used by the species that was ancestral to apes and humans.
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N. C.'s Republican party is loaded with precisely the kind of knuckle-walking club thumpers who hate McCain for his "liberalness" and, among those who aren't, there is a lot of concern about his temper.
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If Clinton is the nominee, every knuckle-walking troglodyte in the state will crawl out of the swamps to march to the polls and voted against hated "Hellary Clit-on" (I saw that name on a bumper sticker parked in front of a Mexican restaurant in Panama City Beach when I was visiting my aunt in Florida last year).
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By walking upright over four million years ago, the earliest hominids were already on an evolutionary track separate from even chimps and gorillas, our nearest genetic cousins, who locomote with a different kind of gait known as knuckle-walking.
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Clinton's candidacy will draw every last knuckle-walking troglodyte out of the swamps to vote against hated "Hellary" and Obama's candidacy will mobilize the Klan vote.
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I refer of course to the tragedy of Travis the Celebrity Chimpanzee (former spokes-monkey for Old Navy and Coca-Cola), brought down in a blaze of bullets as he took his last knuckle-walking stand.
Warren Holstein: Monkey Business: Travis the Celebrity Chimpanzee Attacks!!!
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Rather, Sen McCaskill knows that Missouri has a governor's election this go around and does not want to see Jay Nixon (D) get trounced by Matt Blunt (R - think 'GW Bush on a smaller scale') because Clinton's name on the ticket brings every knuckle-walking troglodyte out of the caves of southern and central Missouri to vote against Clinton (and for Blunt while they are at it).
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Moving on: I have been kept busy the last few days with Mesozoic frogs, pterosaurs (again), gazumping and aetosaurs … and I must stop knuckle-walking.
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I learnt today that knuckle-walking is painful, despite practice.
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