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Wrecker   /rˈɛkər/   Listen
Wrecker

noun
1.
Someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job.
2.
Someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks.  Synonyms: diversionist, saboteur.
3.
A truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones).  Synonyms: tow car, tow truck.



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"Wrecker" Quotes from Famous Books



... exploited his war record, his reputation as a railroad wrecker, and his evasion of the income tax.[1525] The accusation of "railroad wrecking" was scarcely sustained, but his income tax was destined to bring him trouble. Nast kept his pencil busy. One cartoon, displaying Tilden emptying a large barrel of greenbacks ...
— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
... obscuring of distinctions between good and bad and the acceptance of all human beings and all states of mind as equal in value. If something of this kind should prove in the end to be right for man, then Greece will have played the part of the great wrecker in human history. She will have held up false lights which have lured our ship to dangerous places. But at any rate, through calm and storm, she does hold her lights; she lit them first of the nations and held them ...
— The Legacy of Greece • Various


Words linked to "Wrecker" :   undoer, ruiner, manual laborer, jack, labourer, housebreaker, uprooter, sleeper, destroyer, waster, wreck, laborer, truck, knacker, motortruck


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