housewrecker
- n a wrecker of houses
in England a housewrecker is called a housebreaker
- There is one type of structure, and only one, which the modern housewrecker with all his pneumatic drills and acetylene torches finds himself hard put to destroy.
- Starting a new slum clearance drive in Rome Benito Mussolini bounded to the roof of a moldering hovel, swung a housewrecker's pick with spectacular results.
- The cute plot tells of the agony which Douglas, a professional housewrecker, goes through when his bird-voiced wife (Celeste Holm) decides to follow in Lily Pons's footsteps.