Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US short-order) of eggs, to beat, to scramble.

1946

De Vries & Bushkin ‘Boogie Woogie Blue Plate’ 🎵 You can hear her calling orders like this [...] ‘OJ up wreck two in a cup’.

2. to degrade a fellow homosexual when he is not expecting it.

1970

J.P. Stanley ‘Homosexual Sl.’ in AS XLV:1/2 59: wreck v 2: Degrade another homosexual when he does not expect it.

3. to deliberately exaggerate one’s effeminacy as a shock tactic.

1970

J.P. Stanley ‘Homosexual Sl.’ in AS XLV:1/2 59: wreck v 1: Shock heterosexuals by purposely acting in an outrageous manner.

4. (US black) to perform [a song] uninhibitedly and excellently.

2005

B. Coleman Rakim Told Me 207: ‘We had no aura or façade. We came straight out of our house, grabbed a mic and wrecked it’.

5. (US black) to beat severely.

2010

W.D. Myers Lockdown 144: If King Kong attacked me I would just have to go all out and wreck the dude.