knacker

Plural: knackers

Noun

• One who buys old livestock for slaughter; a destroyer.
• 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
• 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.
• A harnessmaker or saddlemaker; their place of business (e.g., saddlery).
• One who slaughters and (especially) renders worn-out livestock (especially horses) and sells their flesh, bones and hides.
• One who dismantles old ships, houses, etc. and sells their components.
• An itinerant person, especially one of Irish Traveller heritage.
• A person of lower social class; a chav, skanger, or similar.
• A testicle.
• An old, worn-out horse.
• A collier's horse.

Verb

• To tire out, exhaust; to beat up and use up (something), leaving it worn out and damaged.
• To reprimand.

Examples

• Carrying that giant statue up those stairs completely knackered me.
• He was a knacker of his opponent’s high hopes, blocking every potential triple word.
• That table that I was going to put the statue on may not suffice, as it's completely knackered.

Synonyms

Barry boy, Westie, adlay, bam, bazza, benny, bogan, bopper, brush, charva, charver, chav, clapper, dobber, dresser, dumbo, eshay, gazza, gippo, herbert, hood rat, kev, knacker, mev, ned, nob, ocker, pikey, pleb, poor white trash, prole, puffy, radgie, redneck, rudeboy, rudie, scally, scanger, schemie, scobe, scoundrel, scratter, scrote, scrub, scrubber, scuffer, scumbag, scunner, scutter, sham, skanger, skeet, smackhead, smick, snoopy, spide, steek, stig, sweeper, thug, thugette, townie, trailer trash, trev, vic, white trash, wigger, yarco, yob, yobbo