Usually means: Heavy ball used for demolition.
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  1. wrecking ball: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wrecking ball: Merriam-Webster
  3. wrecking ball: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wrecking ball: Collins English Dictionary
  5. wrecking-ball: Wordnik
  6. wrecking ball: Wiktionary
  7. wrecking ball: Dictionary.com
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  9. wrecking ball: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. wrecking ball: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wrecking-Ball, wrecking ball: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (wrecking ball)

▸ noun:  A heavy steel ball, usually hung from a crane, that is used for demolishing large buildings.

Similar:
wrecker's ball, wrecking car, Titan crane, hammer, wrecker, boom, autoballaster, crab, bola, wrecking pump, more...

Opposite:
construction, building, creation, erection

Phrases:
Wrecking Ball World Tour, dismantle with a wrecking ball, more...

Adjectives:
garbage, shred, butchered, buckshee, split, cut, cut up, bombed-out, brit, spring, ripe

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Similar:
wrecker's ball, wrecking car, Titan crane, hammer, wrecker, boom, autoballaster, crab, bola, wrecking pump, more...

Opposite:
construction, building, creation, erection

Phrases:
Wrecking Ball World Tour, dismantle with a wrecking ball, more...

Adjectives:
garbage, shred, butchered, buckshee, split, cut, cut up, bombed-out, brit, spring, ripe



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