1. A slang term for 'testicles'.
2. A yard where horses are killed for food or glue, short for the "knacker's yard".
3. Sometimes used in place of 'knackered', meaning 'tired' or 'worn out'.
1. He's got his knackers in a twist.
2. We sent Red Rum to the knacker's yard.
3. My knackers are knackers after all that fun in the knacker's.
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{travelling community}
" these knackers walked into the bar last night, and started a fight when they couldnt get served "
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{scumbag/rough}
bob - " aw man, theres a bunch of knackers trying to get on the bus... "
billy - " crap... "
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{testicles}
"OW !!! godammit, you kicked me right in the knackers !!!"
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1. I was knackered when I got in from work.
2. After my seventh ejaculation I was well and truly knackered.
3. The teacher caught us smoking and now we're going to get really knackered.
4. I tried to fix my dad's PC but now it's more knackered than ever.
Plural noun - "Knackers" is a traditional British slang word for Testicles.
The word has found occasional usage in other parts of the anglosphere.
"Knackers" is often used as an interjection to show disbelief or as a term of exasperation. The word is more or less synonymous with Bollocks - meaning something is broken, false, wrong or malfunctioning.
The word repurposes another slang term - Knackered which means tired, broken or malfunctioning.
("This gear box is getting knackered") and is instead used purely to denote testicles.
The etymology probably has its origin in attacks on the testicles; so to "Knacker" someone would be to render them incapacitated (broken), and kicking someone's testicles is a fast way to do this. So to kick someone in the "knackers" would be to put them out of action.
"Knackers" is generally regarded as slightly less offensive than "Bollocks" as a term.
The word "Knacker", can be used to describe a lone testicle.
"Thats a real kick in the knackers."
"Oh knackers I dropped the tiny screw"
"These pants are a little tight around the knackers"
"Your left knacker has escaped your underpants and is hanging free in the breeze."