train wrecknoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈtreɪn ˌrek//ˈtreɪn ˌrek/mainly US informalsomething that fails completely or goes extremely badly:
The movie was a train wreck.
After last year's train wreck of a season, we have to do better.
Synonym
car crash
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Failures
- a dog's breakfast idiom
- another/the final nail in the coffin idiom
- breakdown
- car crash
- cock-up
- dead duck
- foul-up
- free fall
- hash
- lemon
- lost cause
- lulu
- mess
- mess-up
- parody
- slim pickings
- slush pile
- track record
- turkey
- underachiever
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train-wreck
adjective [ before noun ] uk/ˈtreɪn ˌrek//ˈtreɪn ˌrek/
It's train-wreck television - so bad it's almost fascinating.