the small bone that covers the front of the knee
SYNPATELLA
verb (-pp-) [VN] to shoot or break sb's kneecaps as a form of punishment that is not official and is illegal
kneecapping noun [C,U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for kneecap is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is kneecap a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, kneecap is tagged as noun.
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