Definitions for wreckerˈrɛk ər

wreck•erˈrɛk ər(n.)

a person or thing that wrecks.
a person, car, or train employed in removing wreckage, debris, etc., as from railroad tracks.
Category: Railroads
Category: Transportation
Ref: Also called tow car , tow truck.
a person or business that demolishes and removes houses or other buildings, as in clearing sites for other use.
a person or vessel employed in recovering salvage from wrecked or disabled vessels.
Category: Nautical
a person who plunders wrecks, esp. after exhibiting false signals in order to cause shipwrecks.
Category: Nautical

1795–1805

wrecker(noun)
someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job
saboteur, wrecker, diversionist(noun)
someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
tow truck, tow car, wrecker(noun)
a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones)

wrecker(Noun)
A person or company that dismantles old or wrecked vehicles or other items, to reclaim useful parts. (Australia)
wrecker(Noun)
One who breaks up situations, events - (home wrecker, marriage wrecker, party wrecker)
wrecker(Noun)
A tow truck.
wrecker(Noun)
A mooncusser.
wrecker(Noun)
In the Soviet Union, someone accused of the formal charge of wrecking, that is, undermining the state in intangible ways.

Origin: derived from the verb to wreck - one who wrecks.

Wrecker(noun)
one who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like
Wrecker(noun)
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
Wrecker(noun)
a vessel employed by wreckers

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