One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and
the like. [1913 Webster]
One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks
of vessels, etc. Specifically: (a) One who visits a wreck for the
purpose of plunder. (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. [1913 Webster]
A vessel employed by wreckers. [1913
Webster]
Word Net
wreckerNoun
1 someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings
as a job
2 someone who commits sabotage or deliberately
causes wrecks [syn: saboteur, diversionist]
3 a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars
(or to remove cars from no-parking zones) [syn: tow truck,
tow
car]
Moby Thesaurus
animal, annihilator, anthropophagite, arsonist, barbarian, beast, biblioclast, bomber, brute, burner, cannibal, demolisher, depredator, despoiler, destroyer, dynamitard, dynamiter, exterminator, forager, forayer, freebooter, hun, hyena, iconoclast, idol breaker, idoloclast, looter, man-eater, marauder, nihilist, pillager, plunderer, raider, rapparee, ravager, ravisher, reiver, rifler, ruiner, sacker, savage, shark, spoiler, spoliator, syndicalist, terrorist, tiger, vandal, wild manEnglish
Etymology
derived from the verb to wreck - one who wrecks.Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛkə(r)
Noun
- A person or company that dismantles old or wrecked vehicles or other items, to reclaim useful parts. (Australia)
- One who breaks up situations, events - (home wrecker, marriage wrecker, party wrecker)
- A tow truck.
- A mooncusser.
- In the Soviet Union, someone accused of the formal charge of wrecking, that is, undermining the state in intangible ways.
Translations
person or company that dismantles old or wrecked
vehicles or other items, to reclaim useful parts
one who breaks up situations, events
tow truck
- Finnish: hinausauto
mooncusser
The Wrecker, wrecker or wrecking may refer
to:
- Wrecking (shipwreck) is the practice of taking valuables from a shipwreck which has foundered near or close to shore
- Wrecker (comics) is a Marvel Comics supervillain
- Wrecking (Soviet crime) was a crime of industrial or economic sabotage
- The Wreckers are a sub-team of Autobots in the fictional Transformers Universe
- The Wreckers are a musical country duo
- The Wrecker (novel), written by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne in 1892 about a shipwreck.
- The Wrecker (play), written by Arnold Ridley in 1924.
- Wrecking, a synonym for demolition
- A vehicle used to tow away broken-down cars, see tow truck
- A person who participates in sabotage
- A wrecker is a person or ship used for hauling away material shipwrecks
See also
- Wrecking amendment is made by a legislator who disagrees with the principles of a Bill and who seek to make it useless.
- Wrecking yard is an auto salvage yard.
- Receiver of Wreck is an official of the British government.
- Vehicle recovery The European name for Wrecking when applied to vehicles.