knocker
IPA: nˈɑkɝ
noun
- A device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door.
- A person who knocks.
- A critic; one who disparages.
- (informal, derogatory) A person who knocks (denigrates) something.
- (slang, usually in the plural) A woman's breast.
- (especially Cardigan, in South Wales, archaic) A dwarf, goblin, or sprite imagined to dwell in mines and to indicate the presence of ore by knocking.
- (pinball) A mechanical device in a pinball table that produces a loud percussive noise.
- (dated, slang) A person who is strikingly handsome or otherwise admirable; a stunner.
- A large cockroach, especially Blaberus giganteus, of semitropical America, which is able to produce a loud knocking sound.
- (geology) A large, boulder-shaped outcrop of bedrock in an otherwise low-lying landscape, chiefly associated with a mélange.
- (slang) One who defaults on payment of a wager.
- A surname.
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Examples of "knocker" in Sentences
- He knocked the little brass knocker.
- A case in point is the tag you put on Knocker up.
- Knockers also peopled the elsh coal and metal mines.
- She grabbed the knocker and banged even harder on the door.
- The knocker is blindfolded and led up to the door by a partner.
- In the 18th century it was a fairly popular door knocker design.
- Door knockers are less common since the invention of the doorbell.
- All others with the same total as the knocker will not lose a token.
- The Sanctuary Knocker is an ornamental knocker on the door of a cathedral.
- But the hated knocker's jibes are the check necessary to guide that force.
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