Knocker

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  knocker \knock"er\, n.
     1. One who, or that which, knocks; specifically, an
        instrument, or kind of hammer, fastened to a door, to be
        used in seeking for admittance.
        [1913 Webster]
  


              Shut, shut the door, good John ! fatigued, I said;
              Tie up the knocker; say I'm sick, I'm dead. --Pope.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A person strikingly handsome, beautiful, or fine; one who
        wins admiration; a "stunner." [Slang.]
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     3. A species of large cockroach, especially {Blabera
        gigantea}, of semitropical America, which is able to
        produce a loud knocking sound.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     4. [usually used in pl.] a woman's breast. [vulgar]
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  knocker
       n 1: (Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a
            boastful immoderate person
       2: a person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance); "open
          the door and see who the knocker is"
       3: one who disparages or belittles the worth of something [syn:
           {detractor}, {disparager}, {depreciator}]
       4: either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on
          the chest of a woman [syn: {breast}, {bosom}, {boob}, {tit},
           {titty}]
       5: a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge
          to a door [syn: {doorknocker}, {rapper}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "knocker":
     Thersites, backbiter, bag, belittler, boobs, bosom, breast,
     breasts, brisket, bust, calumniator, carper, caustic critic,
     caviler, chest, criticizer, crop, cynic, debunker, decrier,
     defamer, deflater, depreciator, derogator, detractor, disparager,
     dug, faultfinder, hatchet man, knockers, libeler, mama, mamelon,
     mamelonation, mammary gland, mammilla, mammillation, momus,
     muckraker, mudslinger, nenes, nipple, pap, papilla, pigeon breast,
     railer, slanderer, smellfungus, social critic, teat, thorax, tit,
     tits, titties, titty, traducer, udder