n. 1. A special talent or skill, especially one difficult to explain or teach: a knack for writing song lyrics. 2. A tendency or pattern of behavior: "Lincoln had a knack for involving himself in fights where the odds were against him" (Joshua Wolf Shenk). 3. Archaic a. A clever trick. b. A knickknack. [Middle English knakke, from Middle Dutch cnacken, to strike, crack, probably of imitative origin.] |
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