wrecker

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A tow truck
One who breaks up situations, events - (home wrecker, marriage wrecker, party wrecker)
A mooncusser
A person or company that dismantles old or wrecked vehicles or other items, to reclaim useful parts. (Australia)
In the Soviet Union, someone accused of the formal charge of wrecking, that is, undermining the state in intangible ways
One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of vessels, etc
someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job
One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like
Specifically: (a) One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder
A wrecker is a motor vehicle which is used to pull broken or damaged vehicles to a place where they can be repaired or broken up, for example after an accident
A vessel employed by wreckers
(b) One who is employed in saving property or lives from a wrecked vessel, or in saving the vessel; as, the wreckers of Key West
someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
{i} machine that wrecks, machine that tears down; one that salvages or removes wrecks; rescue vehicle; one who wrecks or tears down buildings as a profession; one who loots shipwrecked or destroyed ships
Wreckers are people whose job involves destroying old, unwanted, or damaged buildings
a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones)
wrecker's yard
wreck yard
home wrecker
A man or woman who gains the affections of someone already married and is blamed for a dissolution of the family

His wife falsely accused her husband's secretary of being a home wrecker.

wrecker

    Hyphenation

    wreck·er

    Turkish pronunciation

    rekır

    Pronunciation

    /ˈrekər/ /ˈrɛkɜr/

    Etymology

    [ 're-k&r ] (noun.) 1789. derived from the verb to wreck - one who wrecks.
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