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wrecker

[ US /ˈɹɛkɝ/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɛkɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
  2. a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones)
  3. someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job

How To Use wrecker In A Sentence

  • She called a wrecker and had the car towed to a neighborhood garage, where two tires were replaced and a battery installed. Denver
  • The dealer was just going to give it to the wreckers but I went and rescued it.
  • Since then, I've put some more thought into it and probably the easiest way of making a bow prod is to get an old leaf spring from a car wrecker.
  • So many ships have foundered along this coast, driven onto its reefs by storms or lured there by wreckers ' lights, that pieces from Spanish galleons still wash up with the tide.
  • Italo decided not to call a wrecker till he reached me, about an hour on a 90-degree day. Peter Gorman: Car Trouble Took My Daughter A Step Closer To The Real World
  • One passenger train south was tied up just beyond the wreck, and in about an hour and a half the wrecker appeared in charge of the trainmaster. Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers
  • The attache finally tracked your ship down in a small wrecker 's yard up near Bergen. CORMORANT
  • Several police officers were on the scene and a wrecker was called out to remove illegally parked vehicles.
  • There's a phrase for that, you saucy minx - it's called ‘home wrecker’.
  • His first object was to try to embarrass the wreckers into keeping their gobs shut.
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