knackered
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˈnæk.əd/ / /ˈnæk.ɚd/
adj
Etymology: From "ready for the knacker's yard" or "fit to be knackered", meaning "worn-out livestock, fit to be slaughtered and rendered".
- Broken, inoperative.
“In the end though he had to admit that the car was knackered...”
“We take an old knackered machine out to China and say, 'Copy that, brand new,' and they do.”
verb
Etymology: From the verb knacker.
- simple past and past participle of knacker