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Noun: wrecker  re-ku(r)
  1. Someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job
     
  2. Someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
    - saboteur, diversionist
     
  3. [N. Amer] A truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones)
    - tow truck [N. Amer], tow car, breakdown lorry [Brit]

Derived forms: wreckers

Type of: destroyer, jack, laborer [US], labourer [Brit, Cdn], lorry [Brit], manual laborer [US], manual labourer [Brit, Cdn], motortruck [N. Amer], ruiner, truck, undoer, uprooter, waster

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