^ Any/all of these. I tried way too many things and still didn't get it. I'm not sure if "broken" is really the same as "malfunctioning", which is the first definition that shows up when googled.
Robbery generally refers to stealing something while the victim is present - muggings, stick-ups, etc. The slang term "boost" typically implies theft done furtively.
A Google search shows a dictionary definition for pinko of a person with left-wing or liberal views. Though I realize it would be derogatory and probably antiquated to call a liberal a pinko, perhaps liberal should be added as an acceptable answer.
"On the fritz" isn't really "broken"....I've only ever heard it used for electronic or mechanical things. You wouldn't say a smashed vase was "on the fritz". Non-functional, not working, out of order might be better answers.
I'd agree. The term applies mostly, if not exclusively, to electric or electronic equipment. Broken implies the item doesn't work at all, which isn't totally what I understand is meant by 'on the fritz'. How about 'faulty' as an alternative suggestion?
In addition, I'm 73 so have been around a l-o-n-g time and still have never heard of "knackered". This just about HAS to be an expression originating from "far across the sea" from US.
I'm 37 and have heard/seen the word "knackered". It always seemed like an old southern thing to me, some grandfatherly Georgian saying something like "I'm plum knackered, I think I'm gonna head bed."
Strange, this site consistently refuses to allow us to complete certain words (i. e., DeGaulle, Riyadh) but demands the final "s" on steroids, even though, the way that the question is worded, the answer could just as easily be singular as plural.
I'm a 20 year old in college and I've lived my entire life in the US but I've never heard "scribbler" before. I guessed and got it right, but still wth is that
"On the fritz" is commonly used to mean something dying or petering out. Like, "My car is getting old. It's on the fritz." That's the only way i've heard it used.
Also, juice is alcohol, which is also a drug.