Usually means: Hinged device for rapping doors.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word knocker:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. knocker: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. knocker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. knocker: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. knocker: Collins English Dictionary
  5. knocker: Vocabulary.com
  6. Knocker, knocker: Wordnik
  7. knocker: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. knocker: Wiktionary
  9. knocker: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. knocker: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. knocker: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Knocker, knocker: Dictionary.com
  13. knocker: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Knocker (folklore), Knocker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Knocker: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. knocker: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. knocker: Rhymezone
  18. knocker: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. knocker: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. knocker: Free Dictionary
  21. knocker: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. knocker: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. knocker: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. knocker, knocker, knocker: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Knocker: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door.
noun:  A person who knocks.
noun:  A critic; one who disparages.
noun:  (informal, derogatory) A person who knocks (denigrates) something.
noun:  (slang, usually in the plural) A person's breast, especially if large.
noun:  (especially Cardigan, in South Wales, archaic) A dwarf, goblin, or sprite imagined to dwell in mines and to indicate the presence of ore by knocking.
noun:  (pinball) A mechanical device in a pinball table that produces a loud percussive noise.
noun:  (dated, slang) A person who is strikingly handsome or otherwise admirable; a stunner.
noun:  A large cockroach, especially Blaberus giganteus, of semitropical America, which is able to produce a loud knocking sound.
noun:  (geology) A large, boulder-shaped outcrop of bedrock in an otherwise low-lying landscape, chiefly associated with a mélange.
noun:  (slang) One who defaults on payment of a wager.
noun:  (slang, Eastern African-American Vernacular) A gun.
noun:  (slang, Eastern African-American Vernacular) An undercover policeman.
noun:  A surname.

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