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Noun: knacker  na-ku(r)
Usage: Brit, informal
  1. Someone who buys old buildings or ships and breaks them up to recover the materials in them
    "The knacker salvaged valuable timber from the demolished warehouse"
     
  2. Someone who buys up old horses for slaughter
    "The knacker offered to buy the farmer's aging workhorse"
Verb: knacker  na-ku(r)
Usage: Brit, informal
  1. Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
    "We knackered ourselves out on this hike";
    - tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out [Brit, informal], fag [informal], fatigue

Derived forms: knackers, knackering, knackered

Type of: butcher, indispose, slaughterer, wrecker

Encyclopedia: Knacker