English
knacker
Pronunciation Noun

knacker (plural knackers)

  1. One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc.
  2. One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; a clapper.
  3. A harness maker.
  4. One who slaughters and (especially) renders worn-out livestock (especially horses) and sells their flesh, bones and hides.
    • 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Ch. XXII, Harvest / Harcourt paperback edition, pg. 117-118,
      After a few years even the whip loses its virtue, and the pony goes to the knacker.
  5. One who dismantles old ships, houses, etc. and sells their components.
  6. (Ireland, British, offensive) A member of the Travelling Community; a Gypsy.
  7. (Ireland, offensive, slang) A person of lower social class; a chav, skanger or scobe.
  8. (UK, slang, mostly, in the plural) A testicle.
    • , Never Be Unsaid (page 136)
      He looked like someone had put a 9mm full metal jacket round through his left scrotum. He even had his mouth open in some parody of a soundless scream, much as I imagined I would do if someone shot my left knacker off.
  9. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A collier's horse.
Translations Verb

knacker (knackers, present participle knackering; past and past participle knackered)

  1. (UK slang) To tire out, exhaust.
    Carrying that giant statue up those stairs knackered me out
  2. (UK slang) To reprimand.
    Digital giants Dstv and Vision Group’s Bukedde Television didn’t go untouched with the former lashed for laxities in re-connection especially in cases where a subscriber renewed their subscription by Mobile Money, while the latter got knackered for promoting witchcraft and witch doctors. ( http://trumpetnews.co.ug/2017/03/16/1615/ )
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