trick knee

noun

1. a condition of the knee in which the joint suddenly stiffens or abandons its support.

Example Sentences

Other than the Joe Nash “trick knee’’ wild-card playoff game following the 1988 season, the Seahawks-Bengals series may not conjure a ton of indelible memories.

From Seattle Times

Clearly, these cases are not your neighbor whose chiropractor fixed his trick knee.

From Washington Post

Muhammad – mother of five, grandmother of 16, great-grandmother of 13 — has a trick knee.

From Washington Post

“A thousand other youths. Pimples, pompadour, adenoids, the standard adolescent equipment. There might have been something else like a birthmark or trick knee. I really can’t recall. After the pistol had been thrust against my head, I fainted from lack of circulation in the brain and from fright. While I was lying in a heap on the sidewalk, he apparently ransacked the wagon.”

From Literature

They are like a trick knee, a bad back, an irritable bowel, or tennis elbow.

From Time