Definitions for kneecaps

kneecaps knee·cap

Spelling: [nee-kap]
IPA: /ˈniˌkæp/

Kneecaps is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 263 anagrams from letters in kneecaps (aceeknps).

Definitions for kneecaps

noun

  1. the patella.
  2. a protective covering, usually knitted, for the knee.

verb (used with object)

  1. to cripple (a person) by shooting in the knee:

Origin of kneecaps

First recorded in 1650-60; knee + cap1

Examples for kneecaps

At the same time, Tea Partyers are fending off Republican attempts to “kneecap” the movement as a whole, says Carender.

Red turned away in disgust to leap from my kneecap to Willy's.

Gillibrand exclaims, punctuating her eruption with a brisk swat to my kneecap.

The sun crept up his leg and his kneecap began to prickle pleasantly under the linen trousers.

From her perch on my kneecap Red said, coolly, "Don't you dare try that again."

In the action I saw that his leg pained him, for he bent it suddenly and put his hand on the kneecap.

My muddy shoe slipped, and I banged my kneecap on a fence rail, clinging for dear life.

His elevation above the valley was about the kneecap of the Generoso.

You cannot kneecap a statistic, though you can sometimes make it limp.

The trappers entertain a superstitious notion, which leads them to remove a kneecap from each beaver and throw it into the fire.

Word Value for kneecaps
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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