SABOTAGE, SABOTEUR
NOUNS – PERSON
► MONKEYWRENCHER a saboteur, esp. one who acts in the cause of environmentalist protest → 1978 chiefly Amer.
► SABOT a saboteur → 1988 (Bk.)
► SABOTEUR a person who commits an act of sabotage; one who does deliberate damage to something to prevent an enemy from using it, or to protest about something→ 1921
VERBS
► MONKEY-WRENCH to sabotage, to damage as a form of environmentalist protest → 1983
► NOBBLE to sabotage, esp. to hinder or defeat a rival → 1856 Brit. sl.
► SAB to act as a saboteur → 1996 UK sl.
► WHITE ANT to sabotage → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
Lexicophilia 