car wreck

English

Noun

car wreck (plural car wrecks)

  1. Synonym of car crash
    • 2003, Owen West, Four Days to Veracruz: A Novel, →ISBN, page 120:
      He wandered away from his study group toward the computer lab where he saw that his friend Gary Partoyan—a former squid but not a total car wreck of an individual—had been cast off as well.
    • 2008, Sid Brown, A Buddhist in the Classroom, →ISBN, page 99:
      For me, each performance was a car wreck. At the end of each one I had no clear memory of what had happened.
    • 2013, Kate Hoffmann, The Mighty Quinns: Logan, →ISBN:
      Her life was a total car wreck with no one there to help her fix it.
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