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wreckers

wreckers is the plural of wrecker.

Meaning of wrecker

Noun

wrecker (plural wreckers)

  1. (Australia) A person or company that dismantles old or wrecked vehicles or other items, to reclaim useful parts.
    • Near-synonyms: breaker, knacker; salvager, salvor; scrapper, scrap dealer; shipbreaker, car breaker
  2. One who breaks up situations or events.
    • home wrecker / marriage wrecker / party wrecker
  3. A tow truck.
  4. A mooncusser (type of land-based pirate).
  5. (historical, Soviet Union, crime) Someone accused of the formal charge of wrecking; that is, of undermining the state in intangible ways.

Phrases with wreckers

Questions about wreckers

What is wreckers the plural of?
Wreckers is the plural of wrecker.

Words near wreckers in the dictionary

  1. wrecked
  2. wreckedness
  3. wrecker
  4. wrecker's ball
  5. wrecker's yard
  6. wreckers
  7. wreckers' yards
  8. wreckest
  9. wrecketh
  10. wreckfish
  11. wreckfishes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wreckers (page history and authors); wrecker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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