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Answer for the clue "Door banger - detractor ", 7 letters:
knocker

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A device, usually hinged with a striking plate, used for knocking on a door. 2 A person who knocks (denigrates) something. 3 (context slang English) (context usually in plural English) A woman's breasts. 4 A dwarf, goblin, or sprite imagined to dwell ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Knocker is a British radio situation comedy broadcast on digital radio station BBC 7 , recorded before a live audience. It is written by and stars Neil Edmond as Ian Dunn, a long suffering market researcher . The series also co-stars Paula Wilcox as Ian's ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
knocker \knock"er\, n. One who, or that which, knocks; specifically, an instrument, or kind of hammer, fastened to a door, to be used in seeking for admittance. Shut, shut the door, good John ! fatigued, I said; Tie up the knocker; say I'm sick, I'm ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., agent noun from knock . Sense of "door banger" is by 1590s. Knockers "a woman's breasts" is slang attested from 1941.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a door knocker (= a metal object on a door that you use to knock with ) ▪ There was a brass door knocker in the shape of a lion's head.

Usage examples of knocker.

Jim escorted him to the house and watched with admiration as Cec walked straight up to the front door and banged the knocker, loud.

Knocker and Adolf, Chalotte, Bingo and Torreycanyon were taken out by Dewdrop and driven in the cart almost halfway up the hill beyond Southfields.

I threw in a great deal of traditional fantasy literature, a great deal of elves and dunters and knockers and green men and such but I put it into the 20th century.

He went to bed a little after midnight, and was awakened from lurid dreams in the small hours of Monday by the sound of door knockers, feet running in the street, distant drumming, and a clamour of bells.

From the tiny, prankish piskies who were no taller than a mouse, to the nasty spriggans with large heads, the knockers who worked underground, the gentle small people who lived in faery gardens with perfume, and finally to the good people who helped his ancestors build Kindred.

Knocker removed their hats and Knocker tore each name separately from the sheet that Spiff had given him.

Knocker shuffled his feet and wished Spiff would stop making a speech and let everyone go.

With a nod for Spiff and a nervous smile for Knocker they left the room one by one.

As he changed in great haste Spiff talked to him, for he had much to say before Knocker left.

School, and they came up to Trott Street and the empty building where Spiff lived and where Knocker had lived as chief Battersea lookout all that time ago.

She watched Yonnie lift the brass knocker on the heavy oak door that had tasteful panels of leaded, beveled glass, and announce his arrival by dropping it once, and then waiting for the door to eerily creak open on its own.

Wet to the skin, bedrabbled with mud, exhausted with breasting the gale, we stood for a moment under the porch to regain our breath, then with her characteristic energy she lifted the knocker and struck a smart blow on the door.

The new knocker and letter-box gleamed brassily, there was the same dull light behind the button of the chimes.

At the clang of his bayonet against the brass trimmings, Martha Moulton groaned in spirit, for, if there was any one thing that she deemed essential to her comfort in this life, it was to keep spotless, speckless and in every way unharmed, the great knocker on her front door.

Perhaps, thought Knocker, Stonks had done for these Rumbles they saw about them, and then this powerful creature had taken him from behind as he fought in the tunnel.