The word 'knackered' is a legitimate word in written English.
It is mainly used in British English and is an informal term that means extremely tired or exhausted. Example: After hiking for hours in the scorching heat, I was completely knackered and could barely make it back to the campsite.
He said of Kennedy, who lost his Highlands seat in the general election to the SNP: "He basically [thought] that that the Labour party and Lib Dems up there are knackered".
And the rides are as varied as the people: giant artics, luxurious Audis, knackered old vans.
By the end of it, everyone was knackered and nobody's mind was changed.
Four weeks later, Jamie returns to his star pupil's house to find Kya dining on cheese-chips again and Natasha knackered and ashamed, missing her gold rings which are in the pawn shop to keep the electric on.
"If the game had run another 10 minutes I think we'd have equalised because it was the year Liverpool won all those trophies and they were knackered," said Taylor.
The treatment took hours, Rosemary drove her friend home, stayed late to look after her, went home, studied a map, realised she had penetrated the zone a weeny bit, but was too knackered to stagger out again and pay the charge.
I was also knackered from climbing, so I fell asleep early.
But, anyway, this is what's likely to happen: there'll be a hung parliament, then a fortnight of limbo, then a shaky coalition that'll be shot down by two successive no-confidence votes, then there'll be another election characterised by two entrenched margins screaming knackered rhetoric at a disillusioned majority.
I decide to test an American variation: if your legs are knackered from hard hiking the previous day, walk some more.Downtown is two miles from my apartment.
He yanks the steering wheel left to avoid another pothole, generating a loud groaning sound from the vehicle's knackered suspension.On a clear day in eastern Honiara, you can gaze out across the sea and just pick out the dark mountains of Malaita on the horizon.
Just over half of these firms had ratios of net debt to gross operating profits (or "EBITDA") of over three times last financial year, and/or have net debts in excess of their current market value, two rules of thumb to identify knackered balance-sheets.
