[syn: tow truck, tow car, wrecker]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Wrecker \Wreck"er\, n.
1. One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like.
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2. One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of
vessels, etc. Specifically:
(a) One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder.
(b) One who is employed in saving property or lives from a
wrecked vessel, or in saving the vessel; as, the
wreckers of Key West.
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3. A vessel employed by wreckers.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
wrecker
n 1: someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job
2: someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
[syn: saboteur, wrecker, diversionist]
3: a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove
cars from no-parking zones) [syn: tow truck, tow car,
wrecker]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "wrecker":
animal, annihilator, anthropophagite, arsonist, barbarian, beast,
biblioclast, bomber, brute, burner, cannibal, demolisher,
depredator, despoiler, destroyer, dynamitard, dynamiter,
exterminator, forager, forayer, freebooter, hun, hyena, iconoclast,
idol breaker, idoloclast, looter, man-eater, marauder, nihilist,
pillager, plunderer, raider, rapparee, ravager, ravisher, reiver,
rifler, ruiner, sacker, savage, shark, spoiler, spoliator,
syndicalist, terrorist, tiger, vandal, wild man