knocker — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door.

   Examples

   Knockers in this part of the world seem intended for ornament only, — nobody seems to pay any attention to them when they’re used.

   His tongue became a staircase, his uvula the knocker / Of an ornate wooden door that led me straight into my future

2. A person who knocks.

   Examples

   He was a loud knocker. Despite my usual timidity, after a bit I opened the door.

3. A critic; one who disparages.

   Examples

   "I try to give everybody credit," declared the old man. "I am not a knocker. I am not too good for this world."

4. A person who knocks (denigrates) something.

   Usage

   • Derogatory
   • Informal

5. A person's breast, especially if large.

   Usage

   • plural-normally
   • Slang

6. A dwarf, goblin, or sprite imagined to dwell in mines and to indicate the presence of ore by knocking.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • in South Wales

7. A mechanical device in a pinball table that produces a loud percussive noise to signal that a free game has been earned.

   Examples

   A good game needs color, lights, bells, gongs, and knockers, all to assure the player he is making progress[…]

8. A person who is strikingly handsome or otherwise admirable; a stunner.

   Usage

   • Dated
   • Slang

9. A large cockroach, especially Blaberus giganteus, of semitropical America, which is able to produce a loud knocking sound.

10. A large, boulder-shaped outcrop of bedrock in an otherwise low-lying landscape, chiefly associated with a mélange.

11. One who defaults on payment of a wager.

    Usage

    • Slang

    Examples

    To the consternation of those who believed that bookies were 'knockers' (defaulters), he paid his losses with alacrity […]

12. A gun.

    Usage

    • Slang

    Examples

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    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

    Last opper we caught had to pop 'em, shouldn't've left out his crib without knockers

    Dotty my holster, totin on this knocker (Grrah, grrah) If we see the'Ds, bitch, move proper

13. An undercover policeman.

    Usage

    • Slang

    Examples

    The knockers around better do what I say so

Noun

1. (Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person

   Broader terms

   big shotbig gunbig wheelbig cheesebig dealbig enchiladabig fishhead honcho

2. a person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance)

   Broader terms

   actordoerworker

   Examples

   open the door and see who the knocker is

3. one who disparages or belittles the worth of something

   Synonyms

   detractordisparagerdepreciator

   Broader terms

   cynicfaultfinder

4. either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman

   Synonyms

   breastbosomboobtittitty

   Broader terms

   mammary glandmamma

5. a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door

   Synonyms

   doorknockerrapper

   Broader terms

   device