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noun
A rounded protuberance, handle, or control switch.
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The dynamic between the school friends is universally recognisable, and yes there are knob gags, but they're funny because of the characters who are making them.
But really, it was knobs this and wanking that.
The potty-mouthed Popbitch also confided that a "celebrity husband" had been "knobbing the help again".
Some of them are well-founded ("He's knobbing the nanny," grins Parkinson), but more serious intrigue lies, for the moment, undisturbed.
The claspers of adult males are moderately long and tapering, though those of some individuals may be knob-shaped and spiky.
Controls for the radio, navigation and climate are knobs — and knobs are nice.
There are knobs for Drive, Level, Treble and Bass which are pretty self explanatory.
On the converter box there are knobs that let users increase or decrease things like the brightness and contrast.
There're knobs everywhere, all sorts of switches.
Pegs, which are often made of ebony, are knobs located on the neck of your violin near the top.
He might be a knob for other reasons, but he isn't a knob because he has a bone to pick with cyclists and you're a cyclist.
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