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Meanings of knackers in English

Person who removes animal carcasses and roadkill.

Synonyms
Examples for "knackered"
Examples for "knackered"
1
I don't remember if I was saying a prayer or just knackered.
The Guardian
2
He shows me the knackered knee that did for his football ambitions.
The Guardian
3
We'd arrived alongside the most knackered Gaz van left in the Eastern bloc.
Exit wound
4
But would Nick Clegg really want to prop up a knackered, 12-year administration?
The Guardian
5
Often, I'd leave and return from the job in darkness, knackered.
The Irish Times
1
He says that she has been sent to the knacker to rest.
The new yorker
2
Horses are sent to the knacker's yard, boats to the breaker's yard.'
Depths
3
I can't 'talk nice' to the knacker if I'm tucked under your arm.
The brazen gambit
4
He would have to wait for the knacker to come for his horse.
Anno Dracula
5
Note also the blood-red eyes, with the hard look of the knacker in them.
The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
Usage of knackers in English
1
This is one crock of corporate crap destined for the knackers yard.
The Irish Times
2
They almost resembled the rendering vats that knackers use for tallow.
The Name of the Wind
3
Any charcoal-burners or knackers suddenly walking around in silk waistcoats and embroidered boots?
The lies of locke lamora
4
His knackers were superb.' The wind took my hat and tossed it against a lamp-post.
Travels With My Aunt
5
But by that point, the immune response is so destructive that it basically knackers your lungs.'
Radio NZ
6
The comments on social media and in conversations that Oxegen 2013 was for "knackers".
The Irish Times
7
First try noble animals, then visit the market and shambles, and see how the knackers look.
A Word, Only a Word — Volume 03
8
I am told that Albemarle did me the honour to stable his knackers in my hall at Zoyland.
Mistress Wilding
9
The others, the real knackers, wait for the meat to go bad; they are informed by the strength of the effluvia.
The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
10
In Tarbean the knackers had to come for the stiff bodies of sweet-eaters that overdosed in the Dockside alleys and doorways.
The Name of the Wind
11
What looked to be an entire team of dead horses was lying in the barge, attended by half a dozen knackers.
The lies of locke lamora
12
As I stand there pulling at that same refractory cow, up comes a Poorman from over at Rind, one of those they call knackers.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
13
'Sarge'll have me knackers.' Picking up his minié, he gestured at the Russian with its stock.
The street philosopher
14
"Knackers profit from a plague," I said scathingly, and left.
The Name of the Wind
15
"I could sell the dog cocks to the knackers, at least." Harza flung the brass and copper rings at the Gentlemen Bastards one by one.
The lies of locke lamora
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He says that she has been sent to the knacker to rest.
The new yorker
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Knackers through the time