WRECKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wrecker mean? 

• WRECKER (noun)
  The noun WRECKER has 3 senses:

1. someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job

2. someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks

3. a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones)

  Familiarity information: WRECKER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRECKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("wrecker" is a kind of...):

jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wrecker"):

housebreaker; housewrecker (a wrecker of houses)

knacker (someone who buys old buildings or ships and breaks them up to recover the materials in them)

Derivation:

wreck (smash or break forcefully)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

diversionist; saboteur; wrecker

Hypernyms ("wrecker" is a kind of...):

destroyer; ruiner; undoer; uprooter; waster (a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wrecker"):

sleeper (a spy or saboteur or terrorist planted in an enemy country who lives there as a law-abiding citizen until activated by a prearranged signal)

Derivation:

wreck (smash or break forcefully)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

tow car; tow truck; wrecker

Hypernyms ("wrecker" is a kind of...):

motortruck; truck (an automotive vehicle suitable for hauling)

Derivation:

wreck (smash or break forcefully)