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What (who) is knackers - definition

PERSON WHO REMOVES ANIMAL CARCASSES AND ROADKILL
Knackered; Knackers; Knackery; Knackers yard; Knacker's yard; Knackerman
  • Smoke discharging from incinerators at Douglasbrae Knackery, Scotland. The business deals with the disposal of animal carcasses from all over the north-east of Scotland.
  • "A Dead Horse on a Knacker's Cart", drawing by [[Thomas Rowlandson]] (1756–1827).

knackers         
vulgar slang testicles.
knacker         
Brit.
¦ noun
1. a person who disposes of dead or unwanted animals.
2. (knackers) vulgar slang testicles.
¦ verb [often as adjective knackered] informal exhaust; wear out.
?damage (something) severely.
Origin
C16 (orig. denoting a harness-maker): possibly from obs. knack 'trinket'; sense 2 may be from dialect knacker 'castanet'.
Knacker         
·noun a harness maker.
II. Knacker ·noun One who makes knickknacks, toys, ·etc.
III. Knacker ·noun One who slaughters worn-out horses and sells their flesh for dog's meat.
IV. Knacker ·noun One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand;
- called also clapper.

Wikipedia

Knacker

A knacker (), knackerman or knacker man is a person who removes and clears animal carcasses (dead, dying, injured) from private farms or public highways and renders the collected carcasses into by-products such as fats, tallow (yellow grease), glue, gelatin, bone meal, bone char, sal ammoniac, soap, bleach and animal feed. A knacker's yard or a knackery is different from a slaughterhouse or abattoir, where animals are slaughtered for human consumption. Since the Middle Ages, the occupation of "knacker man" was frequently considered a disreputable occupation. Knackers were often also commissioned by the courts as public executioners.

Examples of use of knackers
1. David Beckhams former mistress pulling off a pig or Dianas butler with a mouthful of kangaroo knackers is, apparently, real.
2. "It‘s madness to hobble a tried and tested thoroughbred by tying it to something heading for the knackers‘ yard.
3. Travel may well broaden the mind, but it also knackers the planet, and the more your mind is broadened, the more unacceptable that trade–off seems.
4. Before Mr Kennedy is carted off to the political knackers yard, however, it is worth the Liberal Democrats being more forensic about his supposed failings.
5. Why pay the best part of 100 a ticket to see four skinny, drug–ravaged old knackers with a combined age of about 3,218 perform songs they’ve been belting out for 44 years?