knackered

IPA: nˈækɝd

adjective

  • (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang, sometimes offensive) Tired or exhausted.
  • (UK, Ireland, South Africa, colloquial) Broken, inoperative.
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Examples of "knackered" in Sentences

  • Oh, and the Brits say "knackered", which is pretty good.
  • Neither is 'locales?' a suitable alternative for 'knackered'.
  • In the boardroom, Nick immediately dobbs Hairbaggs in for claiming to be "knackered".
  • I'm going cream crackered Cockney-rhyming slang for 'knackered' or as tired as a worn out old horse.
  • [Extract]: "Gordon Brown is a 'knackered' prime minister and should take a month's holiday, a Labour backbencher [Austin Mitchell] has said."
  • Then there is an urgent need for more light helicopters, the current fleet of Lynxes being described as "knackered" and far too few in number.
  • They managed to fix many of the so called knackered PS3s that Sony would charge an arm and a leg for or make you buy a refurbised one for £120.
  • The idea is that after a racehorse has finished racing, it is put out to seed made to breed to make new racehorses and when it is no longer capable of doing that, it is "knackered";
  • The journey home was nowhere near as easy as the one up and traffic and delays on top of our sheer exhaustion from the heavy week left us knackered which is partly why it's taken me this long to update!

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