Wreck

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:

    “Such as the wreck of the Hesperus,
    In the midnight and the snow!
    Christ save us all from a death like this,
    On the reef of Norman’s Woe!”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    “Better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “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)