knocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: knockers
Etymology: From knock + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Knockers in this part of the world seem intended for ornament only, — nobody seems to pay any attention to them when they’re used.
ref: 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
text: His tongue became a staircase, his uvula the knocker / Of an ornate wooden door that led me straight into my future
ref: 2016 August 18, Ben Gallaty, “Small Red Boy”, in The Bible 2, performed by AJJ:
glosses: A device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door.
examples: text: He was a loud knocker. Despite my usual timidity, after a bit I opened the door.
ref: 1963, Patrick Anderson, The Character Ball: Chapters of Autobiography, page 220:
glosses: A person who knocks.
examples: text: "I try to give everybody credit," declared the old man. "I am not a knocker. I am not too good for this world."
ref: 1947, Saul Bellow, The Victim:
glosses: A critic; one who disparages.
glosses: A person who knocks (denigrates) something.
glosses: A person's breast, especially if large.
qualifier: especially Cardigan
glosses: A dwarf, goblin, or sprite imagined to dwell in mines and to indicate the presence of ore by knocking.
raw_tags: in South Wales
examples: text: A good game needs color, lights, bells, gongs, and knockers, all to assure the player he is making progress[…]
ref: 1963, Harper's magazine, volume 226:
qualifier: pinball
glosses: A mechanical device in a pinball table that produces a loud percussive noise.
glosses: A person who is strikingly handsome or otherwise admirable; a stunner.
glosses: A large cockroach, especially Blaberus giganteus, of semitropical America, which is able to produce a loud knocking sound.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A large, boulder-shaped outcrop of bedrock in an otherwise low-lying landscape, chiefly associated with a mélange.
examples: text: To the consternation of those who believed that bookies were 'knockers' (defaulters), he paid his losses with alacrity […]
ref: 2004, Carl Chinn, Better Betting with a Decent Feller, page 48:
glosses: One who defaults on payment of a wager.
examples: text: 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 through
ref: 2021 March 18, “Brotherly Love” (track 3, 1:01 from the start), in Dougie B (lyrics), The D.O.A. Tape:
text: Last opper we caught had to pop 'em, shouldn't've left out his crib without knockers
ref: 2022 February 22, “Keep a Blixky” (track 10, 1:05 from the start), in The Blixky Tape 2 (Deluxe):
text: Dotty my holster, totin on this knocker (Grrah, grrah)
If we see the'Ds, bitch, move proper
ref: 2022 October 31, “Doomsday” (track 7, 1:53 from the start), in Kay Flock (lyrics), F L O C K A:
qualifier: Eastern African-American Vernacular
glosses: A gun.
examples: text: The knockers around better do what I say so
ref: 2019 December 31, “Draco” (0:33 from the start), Chris Èlite (lyrics):
qualifier: Eastern African-American Vernacular
glosses: An undercover policeman.
Derived terms: 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