Usually means: Superstition to avoid tempting fate.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. knock on wood: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. knock on wood: Merriam-Webster
  3. knock on wood: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. knock on wood: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. knock on wood: Wiktionary
  6. knock on wood: Dictionary.com
  7. Knock on Wood (Amii Stewart album), Knock on Wood (Eddie Floyd album), Knock on Wood (disambiguation), Knock on Wood (film), Knock on Wood (song), Knock on Wood, Knock on wood: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Knock on Wood: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. Knock on wood: World Wide Words
  10. knock on wood: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  11. Knock on wood: Phrase Finder

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knock on wood: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Knock on Wood: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. knock on wood: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knock on wood: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (knock on wood)

verb:  (idiomatic, US, Philippines) To take a customary action to ward off some misfortune that is believed to be attracted by a presumptuous statement.

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