"car wreck" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: car wrecks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} car wreck (plural car wrecks)
  1. Synonym of car crash Synonyms: car crash [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-car_wreck-en-noun-mq6dHjQk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Sid Brown, A Buddhist in the Classroom, →ISBN, page 99:",
          "text": "For me, each performance was a car wreck. At the end of each one I had no clear memory of what had happened.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Kate Hoffmann, The Mighty Quinns: Logan, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Her life was a total car wreck with no one there to help her fix it.",
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