knocker-up - meaning and definition. What is knocker-up
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What (who) is knocker-up - definition


knocker-up         
  • A knocker-up in [[Leeuwarden]], (1947).
HISTORICAL PROFESSION; PROVIDED SERVICE OF WAKING PEOPLE UP FOR WORK
Knocker-upper; Knocker upper; Human alarm clock
¦ noun (plural knockers-up) Brit. historical a person who woke workers by knocking at their doors or windows.
knockers         
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Knockers; Knocker (disambiguation)
informal a woman's breasts.
Knocker         
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Knockers; Knocker (disambiguation)
·add. ·noun A person strikingly handsome, beautiful, or fine; one who wins admiration; a "stunner.".
II. Knocker ·noun One who, or that which, knocks; specifically, an instrument, or kind of hammer, fastened to a door, to be used in seeking for admittance.
III. Knocker ·add. ·noun A species of large cockroach, ·esp. Blabera gigantea, of semitropical America, which as able to produce a loud knocking sound.

Wikipedia

Knocker-up
A knocker-up, sometimes known as a knocker-upper, was