Definitions for wrecker

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wrecker wreck·er

Spelling: [rek-er]

IPA: /ˈrɛk ər/

Wrecker is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in wrecker (ceekrrw).

Definitions for wrecker

noun

1. a person or thing that wrecks.
2. a person, car, or train employed in removing wreckage, debris, etc., as from railroad tracks.
3. Also called tow car, tow truck. a vehicle equipped with a mechanical apparatus for hoisting and pulling, used to tow wrecked, disabled, or stalled automobiles.
4. Also called housewrecker. a person whose business it is to demolish and remove houses or other buildings, as in clearing sites for other use.
5. a person or vessel employed in recovering salvage from wrecked or disabled vessels.
6. a person who plunders wrecks, especially after exhibiting false signals in order to cause shipwrecks.

Origin of wrecker

First recorded in 1795-1805; wreck + -er¹

Examples for wrecker

One heap bore the form of a cross, and was probably the sepulchre of a wrecker.

Plug in the round-house for the wrecker—and tell them to send uptown for the crew.

"That's what I'm trying to tell you," went on wrecker calmly.

To the wrecker of railroads on Wall Street it was indubitably petty.

He knows them, now, for false lights on the wrecker's coast.

Then Dick talked in whispers with wrecker for a few moments.

The wrecker is a wild and interesting story which had a large success.

Now, skip over there, wrecker, and hide with the fellows in the bushes.

There was a struggle, none the less desperate because the wrecker was underneath.

You mean become a smuggler, a wrecker, and a general law-breaker.