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Definition of knocker:
- A person strikingly handsome, beautiful, or fine; one who wins admiration; a stunner.
- A species of large cockroach, esp. Blabera gigantea, of semitropical America, which as able to produce a loud knocking sound.
- One who, or that which, knocks; specifically, an instrument, or kind of hammer, fastened to a door, to be used in seeking for admittance.
Synonyms:
mammilla, white meat, disparager, breast, tit, mamilla, dummy, teat, detractor, booby, doorknocker, pap, titmouse, nipple, dope, boob, embrace, depreciator, rapper, heart, pinhead, titty, dumbbell, chest, bosom.
Usage examples:
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If I could only have kept our door- knocker, at Northampton, as bright as that!
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Her first rap was very timid- one feeble fall of the knocker; and then she stood still again for many minutes; but presently she rallied her courage and knocked several times together, not loudly, but rapidly, so that Mrs. Pettifer, if she only heard the sound, could not mistake it.
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At this moment the knocker announced the des Grassins family, and their arrival interrupted a conversation which had begun between Madame Grandet and the abbe.