1. a person who engages in sabotage or deliberate obstruction of industrial or development projects, especially to protest environmental damage
Usage: informal; often used in environmental activism contexts

Examples

• Environmental monkeywrenchers claimed responsibility for disabling the logging equipment.
• The activist group was accused of being monkeywrenchers for their campaign against the pipeline project.
• Some consider monkeywrenchers heroes fighting for the planet, while others view them as criminals.
• The documentary followed a group of monkeywrenchers working to protect endangered habitats.
• Critics argued that monkeywrenchers were taking environmental protest too far.