knocker

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Can't the knocker-upper just use an alarm clock?

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Quick take

(Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of knocker gathered in one view.

noun

(Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person

noun

a person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance); "open the door and see who the knocker is"

noun

one who disparages or belittles the worth of something

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for knocker.

noun

(Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person

noun

a person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance); "open the door and see who the knocker is"

noun

one who disparages or belittles the worth of something

See also: detractor, disparager, depreciator

noun

either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman

See also: breast, bosom, boob, tit, titty

noun

a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door

Example sentences

Can't the knocker-upper just use an alarm clock?

Which makes me wonder: who would wake the knocker-upper so they go wake other people on time?Turtles all the way down.

I hit her back tire and knocker her over, but I went over the bars and pivoted around my front wheel right into the ground.

A QI episode covered this; knockers-uppers can have their own knocker-uppers too!

So being able to see and even respond to the knocker might well prevent a breakin, even if you aren't physically there.

Or setup a port knocker script that closes the port, only opening it for outside connections when you want to watch Archer or whatever.

Assuming you use keypairs the attacker either has your private key or he doesn't. If they compromise your client to the point of having your private key they are likely to have access to whatever port knocker magic you have in place.

I got a 2nd quote from another installer but the door-knocker was cheaper so I bought his. I wouldn't have known the subsidy was available without him and would have missed out on a genuine rare high-value giveaway.

You designate a knocker-upper knocker-upper, a person who goes to sleep with the inhabitants, and the last thing they do is to wake the knocker-uppers up.

My favorite is the "knocker-up"!A knocker-up, sometimes known as a knocker-upper, was a profession in Britain and Ireland that started during and lasted well into the Industrial Revolution, when alarm clocks were neither cheap nor reliable, and to as late as the beginning of the 1920s.