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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shredder
noun
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▪ And word got out that a paper shredder was busily eating superfund documents.
▪ But their strength as vehicles for practice or as a first amp for a budding shredder would be difficult to challenge.
▪ Millions of books, as we now know, are relegated to the shredder every year.
▪ Oh, our lettuce shredder fell apart.
▪ The bottom shelf was wider and it held a square white machine which looked like a document shredder.
▪ The real money lay not in the shredder but in the shredded cereal.
▪ Then along came the shredder and the electric-arc steel furnace, which gobbled scrap steel.
▪ With more of the same in the forecast for the weekend, the record books are awaiting the shredder.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shredder

1570s, agent noun from shred (v.). In the paper disposal sense from 1950.

Wiktionary
shredder

n. 1 A machine that tears up objects into smaller pieces, especially a paper shredder or garbage shredder. 2 (context computing English) A program that overwrites deleted data to prevent recovery. 3 (context slang English) Someone who snowboards; a snowboarder. 4 (cx music English) One who shreds, or plays (especially the guitar) very fast.

WordNet
shredder

n. a device that shreds documents (usually in order to prevent the wrong people from reading them)

Wikipedia
Shredder (software)

Shredder is a commercial chess program and chess engine developed in Germany by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen in 1993. Shredder won the World Microcomputer Chess Championship in 1996 and 2000, the World Computer Chess Championship in 1999 and 2003, the World Computer Speed Chess Championship in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2007, and the World Chess Software Championship in 2010.

On the January 24, 2007, CEGT rating list, Deep Shredder 10.0 placed fifth, with a rating of 2855 – 5 points below LoopMp, 22 points below Deep Fritz 10, and 160 points below number 1-ranked Rybka 2.1, which had a rating of 3015.

Version 10.0 was released in June 2006. Version 11.0 was released in October 2007. Version 12 was released in January 2010. The "Deep" version takes advantage of multiple CPUs or multiple core CPUs.

Shredder (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

The Shredder (Oroku Saki) is a fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics and all of its related media. At one point or another in every incarnation of the TMNT stories, he has been the archenemy of Splinter and the Turtles, and usually serves as the main antagonist. He is the leader of the criminal organization known as the Foot Clan.

Shredder (film)

Shredder is a 2003 horror film directed by Greg Huson. It stars Scott Weinger and Lindsey McKeon and centers on a group of friends being stalked and murdered by an unknown figure at an abandoned ski resort. Filmed in Northern Idaho at Silver Mountain Ski Resort, the old lodge before the expansion will look familiar to skiers from the early 80's.

Usage examples of "shredder".

He gave it back to Wigner, who dropped the microfiche in his desktop shredder.

After Martha returned to the kitchen, Sally told Thomas Shredder, Corey Harper, and David Mountebank, who had easily been persuaded to return for dinner and another conference, about the cemetery.

Three unindicted co-conspirators in business suits anxiously fed documents into a ninety-nine-dollar shredder just out of the box from Office Depot.

He turned his attention to a file folder marked AUTO INSURANCE and fed its contents into the shredder.

Shredder was about thirty, tall and lanky, and very intense, one of those men Quinlan tried to avoid like the plague.

A six-inch split opened to reveal a second baby face, complete with meat shredders.

If they'd been classified, the papers would have been disposed of properly in a burn bag or a crosscut shredder that would have converted them into powder.

He gathered up the printed copies of the e-mails, and after assuring himself he had memorized all the important details, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses, he began running them one at a time through the small shredder beneath the chart table.

The usual faxes, calls and E-mail are plain text on ordinary machines, and I would love a shredder that actually worked.

And third, I know those harvest droids don't have internal shredders because those are Hapan model HD two thirty-four C's!