train wreck
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.92 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A train crash.
noun
The wreckage resulting from a train crash.
noun
Someone who is unbalanced and considered a mess, a disaster, one who is suffering personal ruin.
Example Sentences
- "There is a feeling in Washington that we are gathering at the side of the track to watch a gigantic economic train wreck one of these days."
- ""Your personal life has been, and is, a train wreck.""
- "“Hrmm. I see your stylist's been working nights.” He surveyed the train wreck of my hair in the rearview mirror."
- "She may have been a train wreck, but she was a train wreck people still can't seem to get enough of. The sordid but fascinating story of her vicious, no-holds-barred battle with life is one of the most gripping, sex-soaked biographies in years."
- "[…] women, by and large, do not like themselves very much: their ambition gaps, their orgasm gaps, their imposter syndrome, […] their trainwrecks, and their need for trainwrecks; the enduring, self-loathing need to find someone about whom they can say well, at least I'm not that girl."
- "[…] basic fundamental communication steps must be achieved so not to train wreck the new employee."