Train Wreck

Noun · Slang & Abbreviations

Definitions

  1. A situation that is visibly falling apart and hard to stop watching. In engineering slang, a train wreck is the project, meeting, or deploy everyone knows is going badly in real time.

    In plain English: A disaster that is visibly unfolding in front of everyone.

    Example: "The release retro turned into a train wreck once each team presented a different version of who approved the schema change."

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