mangler
- 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
A person who seriously hurts and disfigures people or animals
A person or tool that cuts a body into pieces
A person who injures someone badly so they have lasting harm
A person who hurts another person
A person or thing that causes harm to people and property
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.