Associations to the word «Shredder»

Wiktionary

SHREDDER, noun. A machine that tears up objects into smaller pieces, especially a paper shredder or garbage shredder.
SHREDDER, noun. (computing) A program that overwrites deleted data to prevent recovery.
SHREDDER, noun. (slang) Someone who snowboards; a snowboarder.
SHREDDER, noun. (music) One who shreds, or plays (especially the guitar) very fast.

Dictionary definition

SHREDDER, noun. A device that shreds documents (usually in order to prevent the wrong people from reading them).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats