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plural knockers
A device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door. quotations 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.
1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle
His tongue became a staircase, his uvula the knocker / Of an ornate wooden door that led me straight into my future
2016 August 18, Ben Gallaty (lyrics and music), “Small Red Boy”, in The Bible 2, performed by AJJ
A person who knocks. quotations examples
He was a loud knocker. Despite my usual timidity, after a bit I opened the door.
1963, Patrick Anderson, The Character Ball: Chapters of Autobiography, page 220
A critic; one who disparages. quotations examples
"I try to give everybody credit," declared the old man. "I am not a knocker. I am not too good for this world."
1947, Saul Bellow, The Victim
(informal, derogatory) A person who knocks (denigrates) something. examples
(slang, usually in the plural) A woman's breast.
(especially Cardigan, in South Wales, archaic) A dwarf, goblin, or sprite imagined to dwell in mines and to indicate the presence of ore by knocking.
(pinball) A mechanical device in a pinball table that produces a loud percussive noise. quotations examples
A good game needs color, lights, bells, gongs, and knockers, all to assure the player he is making progress […]
1963, Harper's magazine, volume 226
(dated, slang) A person who is strikingly handsome or otherwise admirable; a stunner.
A large cockroach, especially Blaberus giganteus, of semitropical America, which is able to produce a loud knocking sound. examples
(geology) A large, boulder-shaped outcrop of bedrock in an otherwise low-lying landscape, chiefly associated with a mélange.
(slang) One who defaults on payment of a wager. quotations
To the consternation of those who believed that bookies were 'knockers' (defaulters), he paid his losses with alacrity […]
2004, Carl Chinn, Better Betting with a Decent Feller, page 48