knackered

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From the verb knacker.

Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, mildly, slang, vulgar Tired or exhausted. I've got this job in a warehouse just now and it finishes quite early but I'm dead knackered at the end of the day so I don't know about going out and like studying every night.

From "ready for the knacker's yard" or "fit to be knackered", meaning "worn-out livestock, fit to be slaughtered and rendered".

Ireland, South Africa, UK, colloquial Broken, inoperative. In the end though he had to admit that the car was knackered...