See knocker in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"(slang, Eastern African-American Vernacular) An undercover policeman."
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"_dis1": "1 20 8 20 14 0 1 17 2 1 7 3 6",
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "person who denigrates something",
"word": "panettelija"
},
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"sense": "person who denigrates something",
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],
"word": "критика́н"
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"word": "критика́нка"
}
],
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"word": "apple-knocker"
},
{
"word": "black as Newgate's knocker"
},
{
"word": "bommy knocker"
},
{
"word": "cock knocker"
},
{
"word": "cock-knocker"
},
{
"word": "doorknocker"
},
{
"word": "door knocker"
},
{
"word": "fart-knocker"
},
{
"word": "fart knocker"
},
{
"word": "fartknocker"
},
{
"word": "knockers"
},
{
"word": "knocker-up"
},
{
"word": "knocker up"
},
{
"word": "knocker-upper"
},
{
"word": "Newgate knocker"
},
{
"word": "nigger-knocker"
},
{
"word": "nigger knocker"
},
{
"word": "on the knocker"
},
{
"word": "pork knocker"
},
{
"word": "pork-knocker"
},
{
"word": "ring knocker"
},
{
"word": "saggar maker's bottom knocker"
},
{
"word": "slobber-knocker"
},
{
"word": "slobber knocker"
},
{
"word": "tin knocker"
},
{
"word": "tommyknocker"
},
{
"word": "up to the knocker"
}
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"ref": "1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:",
"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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2016 August 18, Ben Gallaty (lyrics and music), “Small Red Boy”, in The Bible 2, performed by AJJ:",
"text": "His tongue became a staircase, his uvula the knocker / Of an ornate wooden door that led me straight into my future",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door."
],
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[
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[
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"knock"
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[
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{
"ref": "1963, Patrick Anderson, The Character Ball: Chapters of Autobiography, page 220:",
"text": "He was a loud knocker. Despite my usual timidity, after a bit I opened the door.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A person who knocks."
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1947, Saul Bellow, The Victim:",
"text": "\"I try to give everybody credit,\" declared the old man. \"I am not a knocker. I am not too good for this world.\"",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"A critic; one who disparages."
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},
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"English informal terms"
],
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"A person who knocks (denigrates) something."
],
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"(informal, derogatory) A person who knocks (denigrates) something."
],
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"A person's breast, especially if large."
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"A dwarf, goblin, or sprite imagined to dwell in mines and to indicate the presence of ore by knocking."
],
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"ref": "1963, Harper's magazine, volume 226:",
"text": "A good game needs color, lights, bells, gongs, and knockers, all to assure the player he is making progress[…]",
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"(pinball) A mechanical device in a pinball table that produces a loud percussive noise."
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"A person who is strikingly handsome or otherwise admirable; a stunner."
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"A large cockroach, especially Blaberus giganteus, of semitropical America, which is able to produce a loud knocking sound."
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"ref": "2004, Carl Chinn, Better Betting with a Decent Feller, page 48:",
"text": "To the consternation of those who believed that bookies were 'knockers' (defaulters), he paid his losses with alacrity […]",
"type": "quote"
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"One who defaults on payment of a wager."
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[
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[
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"(slang) One who defaults on payment of a wager."
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"slang"
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{
"ref": "2021 March 18, “Brotherly Love” (track 3, 1:01 from the start), in Dougie B (lyrics), The D.O.A. Tape:",
"text": "Lay down on that 'Tussin, I think I'ma snooze (Like, like what?)\nWe keep knockers like this shit essential\n.22 long rifles, these bullets like pencils\nHomicide, bodies drop when we bend through",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2022 February 22, “Keep a Blixky” (track 10, 1:05 from the start), in The Blixky Tape 2 (Deluxe):",
"text": "Last opper we caught had to pop 'em, shouldn't've left out his crib without knockers",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2022 October 31, “Doomsday” (track 7, 1:53 from the start), in Kay Flock (lyrics), F L O C K A:",
"text": "Dotty my holster, totin on this knocker (Grrah, grrah)\nIf we see the'Ds, bitch, move proper",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A gun."
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"gun",
"gun"
]
],
"qualifier": "Eastern African-American Vernacular",
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang, Eastern African-American Vernacular) A gun."
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
},
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"English slang",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2019 December 31, “Draco” (0:33 from the start), Chris Èlite (lyrics):",
"text": "The knockers around better do what I say so",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"An undercover policeman."
],
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],
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"(slang, Eastern African-American Vernacular) An undercover policeman."
],
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"rhymes": "-ɒkə(ɹ)"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "person who denigrates something",
"word": "panettelija"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pridíra",
"sense": "person who denigrates something",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
],
"word": "приди́ра"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kritikán",
"sense": "person who denigrates something",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "критика́н"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "kritikánka",
"sense": "person who denigrates something",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "критика́нка"
},
{
"code": "kw",
"lang": "Cornish",
"sense": "mine spirit",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "knoukyer"
},
{
"code": "kw",
"lang": "Cornish",
"sense": "mine spirit",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "kravlost"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "nokkā",
"sense": "mine spirit",
"word": "ノッカー"
}
],
"word": "knocker"
}
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