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Knocker
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- 1 A surname.
- 1 A device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door.
"Knockers in this part of the world seem intended for ornament only, — nobody seems to pay any attention to them when they’re used."
- 2 a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door wordnet
- 3 A person who knocks.
"He was a loud knocker. Despite my usual timidity, after a bit I opened the door."
- 4 either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman wordnet
- 5 A critic; one who disparages.
""I try to give everybody credit," declared the old man. "I am not a knocker. I am not too good for this world.""
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- 6 one who disparages or belittles the worth of something wordnet
- 7 A person who knocks (denigrates) something. derogatory, informal
- 8 a person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance) wordnet
- 9 A person's breast, especially if large. plural-normally, slang
- 10 (Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person wordnet
- 11 A dwarf, goblin, or sprite imagined to dwell in mines and to indicate the presence of ore by knocking. archaic
- 12 A mechanical device in a pinball table that produces a loud percussive noise.
"A good game needs color, lights, bells, gongs, and knockers, all to assure the player he is making progress[…]"
- 13 A person who is strikingly handsome or otherwise admirable; a stunner. dated, slang
- 14 A large cockroach, especially Blaberus giganteus, of semitropical America, which is able to produce a loud knocking sound.
- 15 A large, boulder-shaped outcrop of bedrock in an otherwise low-lying landscape, chiefly associated with a mélange.
- 16 One who defaults on payment of a wager. slang
"To the consternation of those who believed that bookies were 'knockers' (defaulters), he paid his losses with alacrity […]"
- 17 A gun. slang
"Lay down on that 'Tussin, I think I'ma snooze (Like, like what?) We keep knockers like this shit essential .22 long rifles, these bullets like pencils Homicide, bodies drop when we bend through"
- 18 An undercover policeman. slang
"The knockers around better do what I say so"
Etymology
From knock + -er.
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