knocker
Betekenis (Engels)
- A device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door.
- A person who knocks.
- A critic; one who disparages.
- (derogatory, informal) A person who knocks (denigrates) something.
- (plural-normally, slang) A person's breast, especially if large.
- (archaic) A dwarf, goblin, or sprite imagined to dwell in mines and to indicate the presence of ore by knocking.
- A mechanical device in a pinball table that produces a loud percussive noise.
- (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.
- 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.
- (slang) A gun.
- (slang) An undercover policeman.
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Frekwensie
Etimologie (Engels)
From knock + -er.
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