[
UK
/nˈækɐ/
]
NOUN
- someone who buys up old horses for slaughter
- someone who buys old buildings or ships and breaks them up to recover the materials in them
How To Use knacker In A Sentence
- Well I can ask the same question on my knackered old gas cooker.
- Problem is that he has to get down with Karl Lagefeld though at least hes lost the lard-remember when he was a fat knacker?? Dlisted - Be Very Afraid
- But to want to see the back of chick-lit because you've read too many blurbs that feature a single girl with too many shoes and a Martini habit is a bit like consigning pop music to the knackers' yard just because you don't like The X Factor. Should we mourn the end of chick-lit?
- Past efforts at de-knackering it have proved fruitless Yesterday, Sweden’s IPRED. So?
- Celebrate that space bloke fixing his knackered old shuttle by playing the Solar Games.
- I had to have a little snooze this afternoon as I was completely knackered.
- After 48 hours on the road, I'm knackered.
- One defintion of a knacker is "a person who purchases or hauls away livestock carcasses for processing into tallow, hides, fertilizer, etc. Green Tomato Finale
- She was sitting at the foot of the sofa watching TV, obviously knackered, whilst Dom played with his fire engine.
- Or maybe the electronic engine control unit is knackered.