Definitions for: Wrecker


[n] a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones)
[n] someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
[n] someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job



Webster (1913) Definition: Wreck"er, n.
1. One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like.

2. 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.

3. A vessel employed by wreckers.

Synonyms: diversionist, saboteur, tow car, tow truck

See Also: destroyer, housebreaker, housewrecker, jack, knacker, laborer, labourer, manual laborer, motortruck, ruiner, sleeper, truck, undoer, uprooter, waster

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