[
US
/ˈɹɛkɝ/
]
[ UK /ɹˈɛkɐ/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈɛkɐ/ ]
NOUN
- 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)
- 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
- For years now the park has been a haven for glue sniffers, teenage drinkers and wreckers.
- I have weighted the recovery team with not only ambulances and a physicians assistant, but also a wrecker or a CH - 47 with a maintenance team to recover the vehicle.
- I'm all for calling the wreckers and getting them to take it away.
- There is the odd door way that the wreckers left standing, but the original shikumen houses were demolished to provide space to build.
- This place was called the wrecker's reef, and was covered at high water, but when the tide was low, Isabel and the others often went there to get shells. Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma
- I arrived at the scene and waited for the medical team to leave and the fire department and highway patrol to finish before I could start the job of loading what was left of this mangled vehicle onto the back of my wrecker.
- These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilizations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides.
- To top it off, she was a relationship wrecker.
- The wreckers hauling in salvage nets look like fishermen at first glance, but closer inspection reveals the traces of a shipwreck.
