Definitions for wreckers

wreckers wreck·er

Spelling: [rek-er]
IPA: /ˈrɛk ər/

Wreckers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 105 anagrams from letters in wreckers (ceekrrsw).

Definitions for wreckers

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 wreckers

First recorded in 1795-1805; wreck + -er1

Examples for wreckers

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Word Value for wreckers
Scrable

16

Words with friends

17

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