trainwreck

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The not-rehearsing-for-events is just a sideshow compared to the trainwreck of communications at Tesla.

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Alternative form of train wreck. [A train crash.]

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The clearest senses and uses of trainwreck gathered in one view.

noun

Alternative form of train wreck. [A train crash.]

verb

Alternative form of train wreck. [(informal, idiomatic, transitive) To ruin utterly and catastrophically, to cause to end in disaster.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for trainwreck.

noun

Alternative form of train wreck. [A train crash.]

verb

Alternative form of train wreck. [(informal, idiomatic, transitive) To ruin utterly and catastrophically, to cause to end in disaster.]

Example sentences

The not-rehearsing-for-events is just a sideshow compared to the trainwreck of communications at Tesla.

Seriously, who is this guy, and why is this trainwreck #1 on HN?

It serves to avoid the trainwreck that is TLS certificate revocation.

Because good god almighty this thing is a trainwreck otherwise.

The state of OpenGL on OS X is a trainwreck.

But applied sciences places where I have been tend to be a trainwreck.

Seriously, Netflix' UI is a complete trainwreck.

>As I waded through that trainwreck of thread (I don't recommend actually reading this, you will end up a worse person for it) a few thoughts struck me: Mark 2 for the author being an asshole.

To me Windows 10 is the continuation of the 8/8.1 trainwreck, with the ridiculous Metro skins, a broken start menu, the half-assed fragmentation of the UIs into Metro/non-Metro, ham-handed app store/online services integrations, and various new features that do not work.