(n.) One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; -- called also clapper.
(n.) a harness maker.
(n.) One who slaughters worn-out horses and sells their flesh for dog's meat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maybe it's left him knackered, but when we talk in the backroom of an ad hoc campaign office in the small agricultural town of Thrapston, he answers most questions using standard-issue candidate's boilerplate.
(2) The boys have just done eight gigs in nine nights and they're knackered.
(3) Prey is a gritty, concretey number, and while Reinhardt may be the least-kempt of the cast, every character drinks too much, looks constantly knackered and is therefore entirely believable.
(4) As Petra, another member of the team, finishes mopping the floors, and Andrew, the shift manager, cashes up the tills in the office downstairs, I slump on to a bar stool, knackered.
(5) The broadcaster described feeling like "a sort of knackered version of myself" after the stroke, which left him with mobility issues down his left side.
(6) "And watching the match, Pirlo and most of the Italians looked knackered, even misplacing easy short passes to unmarked colleagues, and either not making runs or making runs that were lazy and easy to catch off-side.
(7) Respected animal welfare organisations have warned governments for several years about the growing trade in knackered horses both between Ireland, the UK, France and Belgium, and between North and South America, and continental Europe.
(8) 71 min: Dean Windass, who looks knackered, is replaced by Caleb Folan.
(9) I lean on Suárez’s shoulder and tell him I’m knackered.
(10) But one staff member said: "It was like a car that looked good from the outside but it was knackered."
(11) ET 1 min: Both teams look knackered, with the exception of Gattuso on the Milan team, who looks like a Tazmanian devil on amphetamines.
(12) It's set in and around Kansas City 2044, but the future looks, frankly, knackered.
(13) 9.26pm GMT Arsenal substitution: Flamini on for Oxlade-Chamberlain, who looks knackered.
(14) It's feeling physically knackered, such as in the knees from years of standing up day after day.
(15) Real Madrid 3-1 Atlético Madrid (Marcelo ET 28) Atlético are knackered.
(16) "I arrived here just knackered, thinking I don't really want to do this," admits Coogan.
(17) He agreed, saying sitting back and absorbing constant attacks knackers you.
(18) Ministers were knackered and most had already disengaged from their jobs.
(19) Perhaps this is the person she truly wants to be – an ordinary mum, bit knackered, only able to get out of the house because her own mum's doing the babysitting – and was just unlucky to fall in love with Prince William rather than the local butcher.
(20) After all, being sleep deprived makes you miserable, knackered and liable to crash the car.
Knackered
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Maybe it's left him knackered, but when we talk in the backroom of an ad hoc campaign office in the small agricultural town of Thrapston, he answers most questions using standard-issue candidate's boilerplate.
(2) The boys have just done eight gigs in nine nights and they're knackered.
(3) Prey is a gritty, concretey number, and while Reinhardt may be the least-kempt of the cast, every character drinks too much, looks constantly knackered and is therefore entirely believable.
(4) As Petra, another member of the team, finishes mopping the floors, and Andrew, the shift manager, cashes up the tills in the office downstairs, I slump on to a bar stool, knackered.
(5) The broadcaster described feeling like "a sort of knackered version of myself" after the stroke, which left him with mobility issues down his left side.
(6) "And watching the match, Pirlo and most of the Italians looked knackered, even misplacing easy short passes to unmarked colleagues, and either not making runs or making runs that were lazy and easy to catch off-side.
(7) Respected animal welfare organisations have warned governments for several years about the growing trade in knackered horses both between Ireland, the UK, France and Belgium, and between North and South America, and continental Europe.
(8) 71 min: Dean Windass, who looks knackered, is replaced by Caleb Folan.
(9) I lean on Suárez’s shoulder and tell him I’m knackered.
(10) But one staff member said: "It was like a car that looked good from the outside but it was knackered."
(11) ET 1 min: Both teams look knackered, with the exception of Gattuso on the Milan team, who looks like a Tazmanian devil on amphetamines.
(12) It's set in and around Kansas City 2044, but the future looks, frankly, knackered.
(13) 9.26pm GMT Arsenal substitution: Flamini on for Oxlade-Chamberlain, who looks knackered.
(14) It's feeling physically knackered, such as in the knees from years of standing up day after day.
(15) Real Madrid 3-1 Atlético Madrid (Marcelo ET 28) Atlético are knackered.
(16) "I arrived here just knackered, thinking I don't really want to do this," admits Coogan.
(17) He agreed, saying sitting back and absorbing constant attacks knackers you.
(18) Ministers were knackered and most had already disengaged from their jobs.
(19) Perhaps this is the person she truly wants to be – an ordinary mum, bit knackered, only able to get out of the house because her own mum's doing the babysitting – and was just unlucky to fall in love with Prince William rather than the local butcher.
(20) After all, being sleep deprived makes you miserable, knackered and liable to crash the car.