car wreck

plural car wrecks

1. Synonym of car crash.

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

   2013, Kate Hoffmann, The Mighty Quinns: Logan, →ISBN

   2 more examples

   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.

   2003, Owen West, Four Days to Veracruz: A Novel, →ISBN, page 120

   For me, each performance was a car wreck. At the end of each one I had no clear memory of what had happened.

   2008, Sid Brown, A Buddhist in the Classroom, →ISBN, page 99

   Synonyms: car crash