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Shredder

//ʃɹɛdə(ɹ)// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who shreds or tears something.
  2. 2
    a device that shreds documents (usually in order to prevent the wrong people from reading them) wordnet
  3. 3
    A machine that tears up objects into smaller pieces, especially a paper shredder, garbage shredder or gardening or farming shredder.
  4. 4
    A program that overwrites deleted data to prevent recovery.
  5. 5
    Someone who snowboards; a snowboarder. slang
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  1. 6
    One who shreds, or plays (especially the guitar) very fast.

Etymology

From shred + -er.

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