wrecker Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun someone who demolishes or dismantles buildings as a job
  2. noun someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks
    diversionist; saboteur.
  3. noun a truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones)
    tow car; tow truck.

WordNet


Wreck"er noun
Definitions
  1. One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like.
  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.
  3. A vessel employed by wreckers.

Webster 1913