knuckle up

to prepare to kick another’s -ss, getting prepared to engage in fisticuffs
if you get up in my grille, you best knuckle up, motherf-cker
a phrase uttered in encouragement meaning: “muster your courage, intestinal fort-tude and love for the american-way in preparation for an upcoming (or admist a) challenge
of epic proportions!”
(uttered many times by one of the dudes in the movie “the matrixs:revolutions” during battle
against the electro-mechanical foe)
“here they come boys … knuckle up!”
to make reddy, to make preparation, to -ssemble, to focus on the objective, to concentrate
tomorrow’s the big day people, there’s no room for mistakes, so all of you better knuckle-up!
to prepare to fight.
guy 1 “i was at the bar chillin talkin to this girl after the band played, then this dude looked at me like he wanted a problem.”

guy 2 “what happened?”

guy 1 “i had to knuckle up then his boy pulled him back.”
to put up your setz and get ready to fight
knuckle up nucker
an action akin to the high-five or the handshake. the act of touching fists knukle-to-knuckle in greeting or departure. in 2003 this action was accompanied by the phrase “knuckle-up” but has since just become the motion without the phrase. the first instance of this action and phrase was in dallas, tx in the mid-90’s and has since become a common gesture in most public forms of transit in nyc.
jimbo– “is that some kind of a gang sign?”
miguel–“nah, that’s a knuckle-up, bro.”
the act of whupping someone’s -ss!
b-tch all in my face we bout 2 knuckle up in did b-tch!!!