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| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A heavy iron or steel ball swung or dropped by a derrick to demolish old buildings or compact bulky scrap for shipment. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | With a wrecking ball. You want to help me swing it? (L.A. Confidential; writing credit: Brian Helgeland) | |
Lyrics | Who rides the wrecking ball into our guitars (We Built This City; performing artist: Starship) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
wrecking ball | 31 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "WRECKING BALL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Dutch | sloopkogel (ball breaker, skull cracker). (various references) | ||||
French | masse sphérique, boulet de démolition, boule de démolition. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | eckingwray allbay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-g-i-k-l-l-n-r-w" | |
-2 letters: becrawling. | |
-3 letters: cellaring, clearwing, lackering, recalling. | |
-4 letters: allergic, allergin, balkline, barnlike, beraking, bewaring, blacking, blackleg, blearing, brawling, breaking, clawlike, clearing, clerking, crawling, creaking, labeling, lacewing, linkable, relacing, rewaking, warbling, weakling, wingback, wracking, wreaking, wrecking. | |
-5 letters: aligner, anergic, angelic, anglice, arcking, backing, balkier, balking, balling, barking, bawling, bearing, becking, becrawl, belling, blacken, blacker, blanker, blaring. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Images: Slideshow 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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