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knuckle-duster

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knuck·le-dust·er (nkl-dstr)
n. Slang
Brass knuckles.

knuckle-duster
n
(Law) (often plural) a metal bar fitted over the knuckles, often with holes for the fingers, for inflicting injury by a blow with the fist


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Knuckle-duster carrying teenager Jack Towes was given a year long detention and training order after admitting robbery, affray and breach of an asbo.
AN attacker wearing a knuckle-duster shattered his victim's jaw in a back lane.
Finally, there's the fact that Portsmouth's Armand Traore, on loan from Arsenal, was caught outside White Hart Lane a couple of years ago carrying a knuckle-duster.
 
 
 
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