knacker

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To tire out, become exhausted

Carrying that giant statue up those stairs knackered me out.

a harness maker
A member of the Travelling Community; gypsies
One who slaughters and (especially) renders worn-out livestock (especially horses) and sells their flesh, bones and hides
A 'chav', 'skanger' or 'scobe', i.e. member of a lower social class
One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; -- called also clapper
One who dismantles old ships, houses etc. and sells their components
One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc
{n} a maker of knacks, a collarmaker
{i} seller of horse meat; person who slaughters horses; destroyer of shaky structures; old sick horse
someone who buys up old horses for slaughter
A knacker is someone who buys up old horses and then kills them for their meat, bones, or leather. Her horse was a show jumper whom the family rescued from the knacker's yard
One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; called also clapper
One who slaughters worn-out livestock (especially horses) and sells their flesh, bones and hides
someone who buys old buildings or ships and breaks them up to recover the materials in them
Slang term with same meaning as chav, skanger or scobe
[Brit] 1 a buyer of worn-out domestic animals/carcasses for use esp as animal food or fertilizer
Offensive name for a member of the Travelling Community; gypsies
someone who buys up old horses for slaughter someone who buys old buildings or ships and breaks them up to recover the materials in them
One who slaughters worn-out horses and sells their flesh for dog's meat
[noun]: chiefly British term for a person who buys worn-out or old livestock and slaughters them to sell the meat or hides [Elements of Plot; Theme;]
A person who disposes of dead or unwanted animals (COD) The person who collects dead and diseased animals from farms in order to salvage any products of value (eg, hides and skins, meat for pet food) and dispose of the remains, usually to a renderer
knacker's yard
A place to send a person or object that is spent beyond all reasonable use

He is only fit for the knacker's yard.

knacker's yard
That area of a slaughterhouse where carcasses unfit for human consumption are rendered down to produce useful materials such as glue
knacker's yard
{i} (British usage) place for slaughtering old or wounded animals
knackered
Broken, inoperative

We take an old knackered machine out to China and say, 'Copy that, brand new,' and they do.

knackered
Extremely tired or exhausted

I've got this job in a warehouse just now and it finishes quite early but I'm dead knackered at the end of the day so I don't know about going out and like studying every night.

knackered
Simple past tense and past participle of knacker
knackers
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of knacker
knackers
plural form of knacker
knackered
{s} exhausted, tired out (Slang)
knackered
very tired
knackered
Brit equivalent to "worn out"
knackered
If you say that you are knackered, you are emphasizing that you are extremely tired. I was absolutely knackered at the end of the match
knackered
past of knacker
knackered
If you say that something is knackered, you mean that it is completely broken or worn out. My tape player's knackered
knackered
[Brit slang] tired; exhausted
knackering
present participle of knacker
knackers
Testicles
knackers
{i} (Slang) testicles
knacker

    Silbentrennung

    knack·er

    Aussprache

    Etymologie

    [ 'na-k&r ] (noun.) 1812. Old Norse hnak (“saddle”), hur (“horse”). Profession of saddle maker. which then became: Old Irish an each (a horse), pronounced on ack, via an eachoir (a horse dealer), pronounced on ack-ower, anglicised to a knacker.
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