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cream-crackered
What does cream-crackered mean?
Exhausted. Wiped out. The kind of tired where you can feel your eyelids. Polite Cockney workaround when you don't want to say 'knackered' in front of nan.
"Three night shifts back-to-back — I'm cream-crackered, mate."
Origin
Cockney rhyming slang: 'cream-crackered' rhymes with 'knackered'. Knackered itself comes from 'knacker' (horse slaughterer) — meaning fit only for the knacker's yard.
Frequently asked questions
What does cream-crackered mean?
It means absolutely exhausted — completely knackered and done in.
How do you use cream-crackered in a sentence?
"After that double shift I was cream-crackered."
Where does cream-crackered come from?
It's Cockney rhyming slang, where "cream-crackered" rhymes with "knackered."
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