Noun: wrecker re-ku(r)
- [N. Amer] A truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones)
"They called for a wrecker after their car broke down on the highway";
- tow truck [N. Amer], tow car, breakdown lorry [Brit]
- Someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job
"The wrecker carefully brought down the old warehouse"
- Someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
"The wrecker was caught damaging company equipment";
- saboteur, diversionist
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
Encyclopedia: Wrecker