Door knocker

/dˈɔː nˈɒkə/

/dˈoːɹ nˈɑːkɚ/

Door knocker

a metal object connected to the back of a door, which people hit against the door as a way of asking others to let them in

synonyms : knocker

Examples

1. You know, I love the septum piercing for the door knocker.

2. Scrooge's sole employee, an impoverished but good-natured dude named Bob Cratchit, finishes the workday and skips off home to do lame Christmas-y things like being poor and having friends, while Scrooge has his customary dinner of gross, flavorless porridge and heads home, but stops short just short of the door because his otherwise innocuous door knocker has spontaneously transformed to look like his dead partner Marley.