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:
“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)
“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)
“Crash on crash of the sea,
straining to wreck men, sea-boards, continents,
raging against the world, furious.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)