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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



... a wreck," grinned the trainman. "An' you've got all the time you want. We're a-goin' to pull in on the sidin' an' let the wrecker an' bridge crew at it. But even with 'em a-workin' from both ends it'll be tomorrow sometime 'fore they c'n get them box cars drug out an' a temp'ry ...
— The Texan - A Story of the Cattle Country • James B. Hendryx


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


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