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disrupter

disrupter noun: someone or something that disrupts.

Noun

disrupter (plural disrupters)

  1. Someone or something that disrupts.
    • [Kazuma] Sekiya comes from a bloodline of disrupters.2025 May 3, Harry Dempsey, David Keohane, “Can you run a company as a perfect free market?”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19
    • This is [Jean-Luc] Godard the disrupter (played by Guillaume Marbeck), shooting guerilla-style in Paris without lights, permits and often without a script.2025 May 24, Raphael Abraham, “In Godard we trust”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16
  2. An energy weapon in the form of a pistol.

Forms of disrupter

pluraldisrupters
alternative formdisruptor

Origin of disrupter

From disrupt + -er.

Questions about disrupter

What does disrupter mean?
Disrupter means someone or something that disrupts.
What part of speech is disrupter?
Disrupter is a noun.
What is the plural of disrupter?
The plural of disrupter is disrupters.

Words near disrupter in the dictionary

  1. disruptant
  2. disruptants
  3. disruptase
  4. disruptases
  5. disrupted
  6. disrupter
  7. disrupters
  8. disruptible
  9. disrupting
  10. disruption
  11. disruptionism

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