home wrecker
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- noun
- /hoʊm ˈrɛkər/
- Offensive
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- She was labeled a home wrecker after having an affair with her best friend's husband.
- the alleged home wrecker
- calling her a home wrecker
Like, she was like, oh, like you're a home wrecker, you know, how could you do that?
- Like, she was like, oh, like you're a home wrecker, you know, how could you do that?
- And what she said was that she fed him what his wife couldn't and that she isn't a home wrecker.
- Yeah, but does it make you a home wrecker if you've not done anything but you?
- You're OK with whore and slut and trash and home wrecker, but not skank?
Examples
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I'd feel like a home-wrecker.
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"Susi, Yonni's mistress, "is happy being a home wrecker."
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I wanted to call him a home-wrecker to his face.
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There goes that home wrecker!
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I'm not a home wrecker.
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I mean, I may be a lot of things, but I'm no home wrecker.
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All she could hear was Christine calling her a home-wrecker, urging her to give him up.
Fiction book (1996) -
Don't be a home wrecker now.
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She was a home wrecker.
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In addition to being dubbed a thief, Cap could also wear the title of home wrecker.
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Synonyms
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A person who causes a couple to break up
How Responsible
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound transparently combines 'home' (house/family) with 'wrecker' (one who destroys), so a learner can infer someone who 'destroys a home' — i.e., harms the family or household. However, understanding it specifically as a person who causes a relationship/marriage breakup (often via an affair) requires recognizing a metaphorical extension of 'home' to family/relationship and applying 'wrecker' to people rather than property, so the meaning is only partly predictable.
Etymology
Home wrecker gives a simple image: a wrecker tears down things and a home is a family's house, so you can picture someone who 'tears down a home'. That's why it means 'a person who causes the breakup of a marriage or serious relationship'.