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Meanings of knacker in inglés

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
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
Usage of knacker in inglés
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...
6
First of all he went to the knacker, Sanin, who lived in a village near.
The Forged Coupon, and Other Stories
7
Only templars can leave corpses at the boneyard without paying the knacker at the gate.
The brazen gambit
8
As long as Bob stayed ahead in age, I wasn't yet due for the knacker's yard.
Priest
9
I mean do I look like a knacker?
The Irish Times
10
Our glen they made into a knacker's midden.
The system of the world
11
For two shillings I'd sell them to a traveling knacker just to get rid of them.
Equoid
12
I remember being called "knacker" very early in my school days and a "smelly knacker".
The Irish Times
13
They are taking Boxer to the knacker's!
Animal Farm
14
You're only fit for the knacker's yard.
At the Back of the North Wind
15
Templar talk nice to the knacker.
The brazen gambit
16
If Janki had said 'a knacker' or 'a gravedigger', the disappointment around the table could not have been greater.
Melnitz
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