(n.) One who, or that which, knocks; specifically, an instrument, or kind of hammer, fastened to a door, to be used in seeking for admittance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Party conferences are always weird melanges of loyal door-knockers, lobbyists, journalists and parliamentarians enjoying a few days of stolen glamour.
(2) During Rio's carnival, large groups of suburban gang members - the "bate-bolas" (ball-knockers) - congregate in the city for a huge costume challenge .
(3) Yet as much screen time is devoted to her wholly unlikely quarry: one Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan, excellent), a mild-mannered grief counsellor who enjoys jogging and jolly family days out when he's not strangling trainee solicitors or scribbling pictures of his clients' knockers in his notepad while they try to tell him about their dead children.
(4) 75 min: "Andy Gray seems to be attracting a lot of knockers; I once saw him having lunch with Suzanne Dando in my local gymnasium restaurant, on that same subject," writes Matt Savage.
(5) 4.54pm BST "It's been such a long, hard season and so many knockers and so many people going against us.
(6) I say "possibly" because no one knows what gender the shooty-bang thing you controlled in Space Invaders was because it didn't have stubble or knockers to define itself by.
(7) He was an antique dealer by now, a "knocker", and in his youth, after the first world war, had been a violinist in a dance orchestra on grand transatlantic liners.
(8) Kidd has insisted that his new prize is not there to "do down" the Booker but to provide an alternative, but the Booker knockers have, of course, seen it differently.
(9) The QALY pliers tend to play down the former and the QALY knockers the latter.
(10) Top universities not to blame for lack of diversity, say state headteachers Read more The college, which was founded in 1509 and is thought to be named after an ancient brass door knocker that now hangs in the dining hall, offered places to 11% of the state school students who applied there, according to the study’s analysis of Oxford’s admissions figures for 2012-14.
Rapper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, raps or knocks; specifically, the knocker of a door.
(n.) A forcible oath or lie.
Example Sentences:
(1) He knew his subject personally, having worked with him on the 1993 romantic drama Poetic Justice , in which the rapper starred opposite Janet Jackson.
(2) Prince Harry and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have enlisted a rapper, a Royal Marine and a Labour spin doctor to try to push stigma about discussing mental health beyond what they believe is a “tipping point” and into public acceptability.
(3) And lying is something that these rappers have absolutely no intention of doing.
(4) Chile - Eggsy Facebook Twitter Pinterest Goldie Lookin’ Chain had a series of hits in 2004 and 2005, the biggest being Guns Don’t Kill People Rappers Do.
(5) But this year forward-thinking mainstream rappers such as A$AP Rocky, Drake and Nicki Minaj have created a fertile soil for the growth of a new kind of normal.
(6) A new song by Jessie J has given rapper Nicki Minaj her first UK No 1.
(7) Raekwon has yet to respond to RZA's most recent comments, although the rapper declared last week that he is "on strike" from the group.
(8) An endorsement like that goes a long way in Atlanta, and the rapper talked about Sanders’s civil rights background, calling him “a drum major for justice”.
(9) There have been a lot of issues and challenges that I honestly wasn’t aware of until I got involved,” says the 42-year-old rapper, who has just completed a Canadian tour and spent the summer on a roadshow with Bathily and Niang that took him from the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi, through Rwanda, Congo-Brazzaville, Nigeria and Niger, culminating at the coastal city of Cotonou, Benin, where they inspected Akon Lighting Africa’s projects.
(10) That did not work out, but such mis-steps don’t seem to have tarnished the rapper’s brand.
(11) A representative for the rapper has not responded to the Guardian’s request for comment at the time of publication.
(12) These were forerunners of today's "conscious hip-hop" (not for nothing is Gamble and Huff's catalogue among the most ransacked by rappers for samples).
(13) He may have picked up a lesson or two from Kanye West, another rapper with a punishing work schedule.
(14) The rapper, real name Sean Donnelly, has found himself a viral YouTube and Twitter celebrity after recording a track that certainly offers a "different sound".
(15) Holler If Ya Hear Me will be co-produced by the late rapper's mother, Afeni Shakur.
(16) If you say, ‘This is Kate Tempest and she’s a poet-rapper-playwright,’ it sounds confusing and ridiculous and a bit naff.
(17) But even as details of the prospective deal began to emerge and give it credibility (including the slightly bizarre but apparently true report of musician Drake intervening to persuade his fan, Defoe, to come to the rapper's hometown team ), there still seemed to be something of a gap between the thought of Defoe arriving, and Leiweke's late-November promise that Toronto were on the verge of the biggest signing in MLS history.
(18) Earlier this year the rapper published an autobiography, The Story of an American Jihadi.
(19) This week the rapper said his gaffe at the MTV Video Music awards in 2009 was "bigger ... than the Bush moment".
(20) Paris Saint-Germain have become embroiled in a row with the London-born rapper M.I.A after she wore a modified version of the club’s shirt in one of her music videos.