wrecker
pronunciation
How to pronounce wrecker in British English:
UK [ˈrekə(r)]
How to pronounce wrecker in American English:
US [ˈrɛkɚ]
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- Noun:
- someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job
- someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
- a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones)
Word Origin
- wrecker (n.)
- 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. Applied to those who wreck and plunder institutions from 1882. Meaning "demolition worker" attested by 1958. As a type of ship employed in salvage operations, from 1789. As a railway vehicle with a crane or hoist, from 1904.
Example
- 1. If you date him , you will be a home wrecker .
- 2. Mechanism design and optimization of the road foldable wrecker .
- 3. Many of them are high-level mobilization of power in the east , the rush to nuclear power plant of voluntary wrecker .
- 4. I am not a home wrecker .
- 5. Hubei star flat wrecker vehicle manufacturing factory .