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Synonyms for scrapper

Most common

fighter battler breaker wrecker knacker

All synonyms

Noun

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A person who disposes of scraps, such as one who collects scrap metal to sell to a scrap dealer.

    After the uncle died they sold off most of his rustbuckets to a scrapper and kept one to fix up.

Forms

Plural
scrappers → fighters, battlers, combatants, belligerents…

Example sentences

  • fighter The fighter courageously looked death in the face.
  • breaker It never occurred to me that he was a prison-breaker.
  • wrecker I wanted to call him a home wrecker to his face.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
scrapperrising
fightersteady
battlersteady
breakerfalling
wreckerfalling
knackerrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

7 letters
fighter2, breaker2, wrecker2, battler, knacker
9 letters
combatant3
11 letters
belligerent4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fighter2 = 2 syllables).