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- n. alternative spelling of train wreck.
Examples
“She just doesn’t qualify for the term trainwreck, in my opinion.”
“The same backroom dealings, lies and political gamesmanship, (Think The Weasel), that highlighted that trainwreck is not going to deliver anything close to comprehensive healthcare reform.”
“People are buying hoping to read yet another trainwreck from the mouth/hand of this person.”
“The girl whose voice is about as pleasant as a multi-line trainwreck, which is the reason she hides behind the Internet and writes rather than hosts a talkshow like an annoying evoo-spewing food person we might possibly yum-o know?”
“The same thing has pretty much happened with Sunrise, whereby pretty much everything they make these days is automatically classified as a trainwreck immediately.”
“Ill patrolman to it right now: yes, as a born as well as bred Long Islander, we am examination a trainwreck which is Jersey Shore with a multiple of horror, entertainment as well as a decent sized dash of there though for a grace of God go I.”
Clip: Snookie gets punched and MTV doesn't want you to see it
“Scarborough references Thiessen's battle with O'Donnell as a ratings-garnering "trainwreck" that he "loves," and sets up this segment as some stupid, entirely trivial battle, complete with boxing bells.”
The Huffington Post: Thiessen Appears On 'Morning Joe', Is Still Demonstrably Wrong About Everything
“This album had all the earmarks of a musical trainwreck which is of course why I bought it.....”
“I'm also not a "trainwreck," another term they used for members like me.”
“After all, the dominant explanation for what was seen as an explosive interest in the female celebrity as 'trainwreck' narrative was that the answer was rooted less in 'sexism, [than] ... the demographics of the [celebrity] audience' (Williams, 2008).”
Melissa Silverstein: The Facination with Celebrity Women in Crisis
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘trainwreck’.
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Situation Normal
inspired by Mistakes Were Made. Words for things going wrong in a manner particularly violent, stupid, soul-crushing, boggling, grandiose, or any combination of these qualities.
writeoff, wreck, bust, washout, turkey, untergang, undoing, total loss, flop, muck up, louse-up, goof-up and 156 more...
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reginaterra's Words
purl, blow, squish, andean, generality, adaptation, lush, pack, filter, acquiesce, abstraction, sweet and 508 more...
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zzyyxx's Words
plethora, drout, functional, rye, wring, doubt, cognative, weird, gnaw, surcease, rend, languish and 438 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Umbersorrow
Intangible, anthropic.
States of being are listed on oofy.njiju, glark, deplore, afterlithe, tagmass, spuriosity, forkful, chelation, oding, ploat, botnet, quedeship and 477 more...
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(Medical) Marijuana Strains
Names of various "medicinal" Cannabis strains, harvested from various sources.
grape ape, grape wreck, trainwreck, black domina, sweet wreck, cal-p, jack herer, purple princess, northern lights #5, amnesia haze, c5 haze, cambodian haze and 685 more...
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So you want to write for Entertainme...
Or "The Enquirer". Or the E! channel. Or Entertainment Tonight. You opportunistic scab! Do you command the requisite vocabulary?
the red carpet, oprah, eatery, helm, greenlight, biopic, box office, swank hollywood e..., galpal, guypal, boytoy, celeb and 40 more...
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from
these words are permanently linked in my mind with a particular context, or are made-up words from books and the like. e.g. esteekers is from a kids' book called Sahara Special.
apostasy, esteekers, rueful, scrooch, hegemony, slinkster, pudge, bufrido, grep, qwghlm, praxis, crux and 30 more...
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