mangler
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9.8
- noun
- /ˈmæŋɡlər/
- NSFW
- Bring up the mangler.
Examples
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The giant steel "mangler" is slapping down in brutal rhythm.
Fiction book (1994) -
- Everybody will be watching to see the lady who caught Eddie the Mangler.
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- Who's the Minneapolis Mangler?.
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Single-handedly caught the Minneapolis Mangler.
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The Marietta Mangler.
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THE MANGLER REBORN
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Some of the stories are hokey in a creepy way, like The Mangler or Grey Matter (or as I prefer to call it, Strange Brew), but stories like Graveyard Shift, The Boogeyman, and Sometimes They Come Back are exceptionally effective and creepy stories.
Blog text (12) -
Shoulders that punch, tails that crunch, deranged stranglers, strange danglers, fanged manglers, mouth breathers, brain squeezers and a dude with weird eyes.
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The criminal was known as a mangler after he violently attacked his victims.
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The horror movie features a mangler who leaves a trail of disfigured bodies.
Synonyms
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9.3
A person who seriously hurts and disfigures people or animals
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6.3
A person who hurts another person
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4.9
A person or thing that causes harm to people and property
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9.9
A person who injures someone badly so they have lasting harm
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9.6
A person or tool that cuts a body into pieces
Antonyms
How Violent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word mangler comes from the verb mangle, which means 'to badly damage' and is also the name of a machine that crushes or twists cloth. The ending -er means 'one who does', so a mangler is someone or something that 'crushes', harms, or destroys in a violent way.