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Meanings of wrecker in inglés

portugués
guincho
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A truck equipped to hoist and pull wrecked cars (or to remove cars from no-parking zones)

guincho

Someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks.

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Examples for "tow truck"
Examples for "tow truck"
1
A tow truck pulled the car out of the water, Zwilling said.
Reuters
2
Joe saw a crawling in-plant tow truck moving past those enigmatic objects.
Space Platform
3
The tow truck operators are being questioned by police as primary witnesses.
The Guardian
4
A tow truck will remove the bus and contractors are managing traffic.
Radio NZ
5
Mets asked if I had a tow truck and some jumper cables.
World war z: an oral history of the zombie war
1
Earl gets Art to tow car and narrator ends up in the dining room of a Holiday Inn, with no one to blame but himself.
The new yorker
2
Run an audit on every towed car that clerk ran.
The bone chamber
3
He won't park by a hydrant even though they don't tow cars away that far downtown.
Burglars can't be choosers
4
She was getting reports on towed cars.
The bone chamber
5
By looking up towed cars...?
The bone chamber
Usage of wrecker in inglés
1
To the wrecker of railroads on Wall Street it was indubitably petty.
The Tyranny of the Dark
2
Since I have known you I have ceased to be a wrecker.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851
3
There he goes, over the sand-hill yonder, with old Peter, the wrecker.
St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, October 1878, ...
4
By the god Amymone became the mother of Nauplius, the wrecker.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
5
We just need somewhere to stay until I can phone for a wrecker.
When twilight comes
6
One symptom, the violent dream, is a relationship-wrecker; Miguel Angel's are terrifyingly vivid.
The Guardian
7
Then we boarded the wrecker to be distributed along the line.
The Trail of the Tramp / By A-No. 1, the Famous Tramp, Written b...
8
The next morning I got a wrecker and took the vehicle to Stewarts.
Jamaica Observer
9
Krantzer had sense enough to order out the wrecker, and send for me.
Danger Signals / Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the...
10
The friendly beacon on the hill had become a wrecker's lantern.
The Soldier of the Valley
11
Refuse to do so, and I remain here-oncea wrecker, always a wrecker.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 429 / Volume 17, New Series, M...
12
I'll call a wrecker and have it towed away for you.
Hill girl
13
There'll be no wrecking of homes, unless you are the wrecker.
The Secret City
14
Nature is a pandar, Time a wrecker, and Death a murderer.
Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy
15
Several raincoated cops stood around as the wrecker crew cleaned up the debris.
Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world: a novel
16
They returned, and shone like a wrecker's beacon to the mariner.
The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
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