noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   One engaged in diversionary, disruptive, or subversive activities.
2. 2
   someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks wordnet
3. 3
   A person who deviates politically.

Synonyms

All synonyms

saboteursaboteurwrecker

Etymology

From diversion + -ist; first attested c. 1937.

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