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wall-pecker

noun

Etymology

Calque of German Mauerspecht (literally “wall-woodpecker”).

  1. derived from Mauerspecht — “wall-woodpecker”

Definitions

  1. A person who participated in bringing down the Berlin Wall in November 1989.

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