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Someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job
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wrecker
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The Wrecker ( Dirk Garthwaite ) is a fictional character , a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks [syn: saboteur , diversionist ] a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones) [syn: tow truck ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1804, in reference to those who salvage cargos from wrecked ships, from wreck (n.). In Britain often with a overtones of "one who causes a shipwreck in order to plunder it" (1820); but in 19c. Bahamas and the Florida Keys it could be a legal occupation. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person or company that dismantles old or wrecked vehicles or other items, to reclaim useful parts. ''(Australia)'' 2 One who break up situations, events. 3 A tow truck. 4 A mooncusser. 5 In the Soviet Union, someone accused of the formal charge of ...
Usage examples of wrecker.
Once they were there, Ennis called for a wrecker to haul the Buick up to Troop D, where they could put it in the parking lot out back, at least for the time being.
To his right a crew comprised mostly of women was at work with a wrecker and a derrick righting a tractor-trailer truck that had jackknifed, partially blocking the street.
One of the wreckers had undoubtedly reported to him that her recep had been fastening his clothes and stalled so she could finish dressing.
It would have given him the option of radioing for a police wrecker to bring him gas, which would have been embarrassing, or getting drowned in the torrential rain trying to walk to a gas station.
Hot-dog vendors, car wreckers, antique dealers, saddlemakers, college professors, vagrants, and movie stars all call Topanga home.
They did not bode well for Darkover, for it seemed that with the Expansionists in power, it was likely that we were going to face the challenge of more plunderers, more World Wreckers.
They are the failures, the Uriah Keeps of humanity, schemers, wreckers of marriages and reputations purely from malicious motivation.
Then, you see, the wreckers have a notion that every thing that comes ashore belongs to them.
World Wreckers came in and assassinated members of the Domains right and left.
Gibbon, Voltaire, Rousseau, Shelley, Byron, Dickens, Stendhal, Samuel Butler, Ibsen, Zola, Flaubert, Shaw, Joyce -- in one way or another they are all of them destroyers, wreckers, saboteurs.
An old tradition: Conchy Joes like him had always been smugglers, from cocaine back through Prohibition rum boats and Civil War blockade runners, and before that wreckers and pirates.
Had her cousin, her geometry teacher, and the man who ran the tobacconist’s shop across from her block of flats truly been counterrevolutionaries, wreckers, spies for the Trotskyites or the decadent imperialists?
Also working in company with the disassemblers were several small wrecker droids, which shoveled up debris or used their built-in plasma torches to melt down scrap metal, plasteel cables, and other rubble considered not worth hauling away, but still too valuable to leave behind as raw materials for the enemy.
Also working in company with the disassemblers were several small wrecker droids, which shoveled up debris or used their built-in plasma torches to melt down scrap metal, plasteel cables, and other rubble considered not worth haul ing away, but still too valuable to leave behind as raw materials for the enemy.
Nearby, the Strawberry Mesa Body Shop and Pipe Queen crowd was located, Ruby Archuleta behind the wheel of the wrecker, with Claudio Garcia beside her.