Definition of "trainwreck"

What’s the point of all this? We think it’s ‘hey, don’t forget to watch the new season of Jon & Kate Plus 8 this coming Monday, only on TLC’. But it might also be ‘stick in there, because these kids are going to be trainwrecks when they grow up, and everybody likes a trainwreck’. Or it might be ‘why hasn’t anybody got anything better to do with their lives than obsess about any of this?’If we could bring ourselves to care enough, we’d tell you. But, hey, we can’t.

2009: Stuart Heritage, Hecklerspray, Friday the 22nd of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”

we need / the living alive to bucket Ronnie's House / with abattoirs of blood hand in hand lesions / across America need to trainwreck the whole / show till someone listens.

2014 (published), Paul Monette, West of Yesterday, East of Summer: New and Selected Poems (1973–1993) , Manifesto

Bethany squeaks a barely audible, “Yes,” grabs her purse, and rushes out of the restaurant, tripping over a chair and bumping into another customer on the way. I snicker. I can't believe my perfect first date with Blake was trainwrecked by McUncool doin her stalker thing.

2015, Caroline Fardig, That Old Black Magic, Caroline Fardig

Apparently, early in the day, a journalist had decided to bring up his brother River Phoenix's death in his interview, which threw him off and trainwrecked the day for everyone, including me. Every celebrity has topics they don't want to go into, ...

2017, Carrie Keagan, Dibs Baer, Everybody Curses, I Swear!: Uncensored Tales from the Hollywood Trenches, Macmillan, page 131