See knackered on Wiktionary
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28:", "text": "In the end though he had to admit that the car was knackered...", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2009, John Newton, Vance Miller - Kitchen Gangster?, page 82:", "text": "We take an old knackered machine out to China and say, 'Copy that, brand new,' and they do.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Broken, inoperative." ], "links": [ [ "Broken", "broken" ], [ "inoperative", "inoperative" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(UK, Ireland, South Africa, colloquial) Broken, inoperative." ], "tags": [ "Ireland", "South-Africa", "UK", "colloquial" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "ipa": "/ˈnæk.əd/", "tags": [ "UK" ] }, { "ipa": "/ˈnæk.ɚd/", "tags": [ "US" ] }, { "audio": "En-us-ncalif-knackered.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/45/En-us-ncalif-knackered.ogg/En-us-ncalif-knackered.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/En-us-ncalif-knackered.ogg" }, { "audio": "en-au-knackered.ogg", "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/08/En-au-knackered.ogg/En-au-knackered.ogg.mp3", "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/En-au-knackered.ogg" } ], "synonyms": [ { "sense": "broken, inoperative", "word": "broken" }, { "word": "worn-out" } ], "translations": [ { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "broken, inoperative", "word": "sippi" }, { "code": "fi", "lang": "Finnish", "sense": "broken, inoperative", "word": "sipannut" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "broken, inoperative", "word": "foutu" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "broken, inoperative", "word": "HS" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "broken, inoperative", "word": "baisé" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "broken, inoperative", "word": "détraqué" }, { "code": "fr", "lang": "French", "sense": "broken, inoperative", "word": "fichu" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "broken, inoperative", "word": "spacciato" }, { "code": "it", "lang": "Italian", "sense": "broken, inoperative", "word": "fritto" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "broken, inoperative", "word": "roto" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "broken, inoperative", "word": "gastado" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "broken, inoperative", "word": "estropeado" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "broken, inoperative", "word": "averiado" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "broken, inoperative", "word": "jodido" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "broken, inoperative", "word": "para el arrastre" }, { "code": "es", "lang": "Spanish", "sense": "broken, inoperative", "word": "hecho unos zorros" } ], "word": "knackered" }
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