English

Noun

car wreck ‎(plural car wrecks)

1. Synonym of car crash
   • 2003, Owen West, Four Days to Veracruz: A Novel, ISBN 0743255607, 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 0791475980, 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 1743640447:

     Her life was a total car wreck with no one there to help her fix it.