Wreck may refer to:
- Wreck, a ceremony of initiation into the 40 et 8 club
- Wreck (band), an American indie rock band
- A collision of an automobile, aircraft or other vehicle
- Shipwreck, the remains of a ship after a crisis at sea
- Receiver of Wreck, an official of the British government whose main task is to process incoming reports of wreck
- Rambling Wreck, a car that leads the Georgia Tech football team onto the field prior to every game in Bobby Dodd Stadium
- WREK (FM), a radio station at Georgia Tech, named after the car
- In ornithology, an event where large numbers of seabirds are driven inland due to adverse weather
Famous quotes containing the word wreck:
“To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;
To forgive wrongs darker than Death or Night;
To defy Power, which seems Omnipotent;
To love, and bear; to hope, till Hope creates
From its own wreck the thing it contemplates;
Neither to change nor falter nor repent;
This, like thy glory, Titan! is to be
Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free;
This is alone Life, Joy, Empire and Victory.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“We’re the victims of a disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the law and order league are scouring out the dregs of the town. C’mon be a glorified wreck like me.”
—Dudley Nichols (1895–1960)
“the thing I came for:
the wreck and not the story of the wreck
the thing itself and not the myth
the drowned face always staring
toward the sun”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)