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How to pronounce knacker in English?

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Type Words
Type of wrecker
Type Words
Type of butcher, slaughterer

Examples of knacker

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Otherwise it will achieve nothing and knacker our economy into the bargain.
From the guardian.co.uk
Butterworth is a tough knacker to crack, but, for whatever reason, Paragon Theatre loves the guy.
From the denverpost.com
Every punch he throws carries power so that will knacker him out.
From the metro.co.uk
Wenger then produced evidence to show that if he played more games it would knacker him for months to come.
From the independent.co.uk
Looked a good knacker that but a bad misjudgement by Nash.
From the theargus.co.uk
If United don't get back into the game soon, they may knacker themselves out with the effort of running about on it.
From the guardian.co.uk
With the maize, however, pollen can travel miles on a good day and knacker everybody's personally selected strains.
From the guardian.co.uk
The Islay would knacker your palate.
From the guardian.co.uk
England's best chance is to bat out two days and make 900 to knacker the Indian bowlers and deny the batsman another hit before the Trent Bridge showdown.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • Someone who buys old buildings or ships and breaks them up to recover the materials in them
  • Someone who buys up old horses for slaughter
  • (knackered) very tired
  • A knacker is a person from the 'Cash' 'O'Connor' 'Mc Donough' and 'Ward' family / clan or in the trade of rendering animals that are unfit for human consumption, such as horses that can no longer work. ...
  • Knacker was a Canadian indie rock band formed in 1998 from Toronto, Ontario, Canada .
  • One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc; 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; a harness maker; One who slaughters and (especially) renders worn-out livestock (especially horses) and sells their ...
  • (knackers) (UK) Testicles
  • (Knackered) Washed up, tired, exhausted, spent. What the integrate will be feeling the sunrise after all this planning, dancing, pressure, skirt talk, vouch swapping as well as attention.
  • ("Knackered") In reference to a person it means tired, "I've been at work all day and I'm knackered!"