car crashnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkɑː kræʃ/us/ˈkɑːr kræʃ/a serious accident involving one or more cars:
He was killed in a car crash.
[ usually singular ] mainly UK informal something that fails completely or goes extremely badly:
At that time my private life was a car crash.
It could have been an absolute car crash but Dolores stepped in and saved the day.
Synonym
train wreck
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
On the road: accidents involving vehicles
- collide
- collision
- crash
- crash-land
- fender bender
- head-on
- hit-and-run
- jackknife
- knock
- overshoot
- plough
- prang
- rear-end
- road toll
- run (sth) down
- sideswipe
- skid
- stack up
- wipe
- write-off
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Idiom(s)
car crash TV