Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. a heavy steel ball, usually hung from a crane, that is used for demolishing large buildings.
Examples
“Maria, no longer Cunci now, rants about America, the corrupt empire in its twilight, paralyzed by its salacious destruction of one president (Clinton), followed by another (Bush) who took a wrecking ball to the world.”
“But his weakness was in direct proportion to his strength, and it lay in his inability to foresee or appreciate the consequence of his actions, or, more simply said, the fact that a cable-strung wrecking ball is designed to swing both ways.”
“Parker, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the District of Columbia could lower the wrecking ball on a department store that happened to be sitting smack in the middle of a seventy-six-acre slum that developers wanted to refashion.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wrecking ball’.
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haguremetaru's Words
floozy, mandalay, mandible, x, don't, will, ridiculous, funily, stuff, junk, doody, manning and 152 more...
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vivek's list
flibbertigibbet, droll, reticence, prelude, erinaceous, brinkmanship, depone, inaniloquent, limerance, pronk, onomatopoeia, oxymoron and 385 more...
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words i use all the time
juke, what, disaster, ridiculous, don't, mandalay bay, manning, stuff, walt, i will, because i do, wrecking ball and 4 more...
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haguremetaru "This guy is a bulldozer. With a wrecking ball attached! He'll leave a ring around your eye, and treadmarks on your back! He’s an animal. He’s hungry! You ain’t been hungry since Supreme Clientele! Remember what you first told me when I took you in? You wanted to be a fighter. You wanted to be a killer. You wanted to be the Champ! You ain’t hungry. Matter of fact, I don’t want you in my gym. Get out of my ring. You disgust me!"
~ Ghostface Killah - The Champ Dec 9, 2006