knocker
Syllables: knock·erUK/ˈnɒk.ə/
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Australia/ˈnɔk.ə/
knocker noun: a device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door.
Noun
knocker (plural knockers)
- A device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door.
- Knockers in this part of the world seem intended for ornament only, — nobody seems to pay any attention to them when they’re used.1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle
- His tongue became a staircase, his uvula the knocker / Of an ornate wooden door that led me straight into my future2016 August 18, Ben Gallaty, “Small Red Boy”, in The Bible 2, performed by AJJ
- A person who knocks.
- He was a loud knocker. Despite my usual timidity, after a bit I opened the door.1963, Patrick Anderson, The Character Ball: Chapters of Autobiography, page 220
- A critic; one who disparages.
- "I try to give everybody credit," declared the old man. "I am not a knocker. I am not too good for this world."1947, Saul Bellow, The Victim
- A person who knocks (denigrates) something.
- A person's breast, especially if large.
- A dwarf, goblin, or sprite imagined to dwell in mines and to indicate the presence of ore by knocking.
- A mechanical device in a pinball table that produces a loud percussive noise to signal that a free game has been earned.
- A good game needs color, lights, bells, gongs, and knockers, all to assure the player he is making progress[…]1963, Harper's magazine, volume 226
- A person who is strikingly handsome or otherwise admirable; a stunner.
- A large cockroach, especially Blaberus giganteus, of semitropical America, which is able to produce a loud knocking sound.
- A large, boulder-shaped outcrop of bedrock in an otherwise low-lying landscape, chiefly associated with a mélange.
- One who defaults on payment of a wager.
- To the consternation of those who believed that bookies were 'knockers' (defaulters), he paid his losses with alacrity […]2004, Carl Chinn, Better Betting with a Decent Feller, page 48
- A gun.
- Lay down on that 'Tussin, I think I'ma snooze (Like, like what?)
We keep knockers like this shit essential
.22 long rifles, these bullets like pencils
Homicide, bodies drop when we bend through2021 March 18, “Brotherly Love” (track 3, 1:01 from the start), in Dougie B (lyrics), The D.O.A. Tape - Last opper we caught had to pop 'em, shouldn't've left out his crib without knockers2022 February 22, “Keep a Blixky” (track 10, 1:05 from the start), in The Blixky Tape 2 (Deluxe)
- Lay down on that 'Tussin, I think I'ma snooze (Like, like what?)
- An undercover policeman.
- The knockers around better do what I say so2019 December 31, “Draco” (0:33 from the start), Chris Èlite (lyrics)
Proper noun capitalized: Knocker
Knocker
- A surname.
knocker meaning in Tamil and Urdu
knocker in Tamil
- தட்டி
knocker in Urdu
- دستک دینے والا, دستک کی کنڈی
Examples of knocker in a sentence
- We can't hang drywall in here until the tin knockers are done.
- That was a real slobber knocker of a football game.
- As he handed the tray over, he heard the knocker echo through the house.
Forms of knocker
| plural | knockers |
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Origin of knocker
From knock + -er.
Words formed from knocker
- apple-knocker
- black as Newgate's knocker
- bommy knocker
- cock knocker
- cock-knocker
- doorknocker
- door knocker
- fartknocker
- fart knocker
- fart-knocker
- knockerless
- knockers
- knocker-up
- knocker up
- knocker-upper
- Newgate knocker
- nigger knocker
- nigger-knocker
- on the knocker
- pork knocker
- pork-knocker
- ring knocker
- saggar maker's bottom knocker
- slobber knocker
- slobber-knocker
- snow knocker
- tin knocker
- tommyknocker
- up to the knocker
Phrases with knocker
Words that rhyme with knocker
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Questions about knocker
- What does knocker mean?
- Knocker means a device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door.
- What is knocker in Tamil?
- Knocker in Tamil is தட்டி. See Knocker meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is knocker?
- Knocker can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce knocker?
- Knocker is pronounced /ˈnɒk.ə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of knocker?
- The plural of knocker is knockers.
Words near knocker in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: knocker (page history and authors); Knocker (page history and authors); knocker (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); knocker (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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