Crash

  • 41crash — 1. tv. & in. to attend a party or other event uninvited. (See also crasher.) □ Some clown tried to crash the rally, but my dad called the cops. □ The boys who tried to crash also broke a window. 2. in. to spend the night. (See also crash pad.) □… …

    Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • 42crash — I. verb Etymology: Middle English crasschen Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. a. to break violently and noisily ; smash b. to damage (an airplane) in landing 2. a. to cause to make a loud noise …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 43crash — [[t]kræ̱ʃ[/t]] ♦♦ crashes, crashing, crashed 1) N COUNT: oft n N A crash is an accident in which a moving vehicle hits something and is damaged or destroyed. His elder son was killed in a car crash a few years ago. ...a plane crash. Syn: accident …

    English dictionary

  • 44crash — 01. Officials believe the plane [crash] was due to a build up of ice on the wings. 02. My mother broke her neck in a car [crash], but luckily she survived. 03. My brother s friend [crashed] his car while driving home from a party, and was killed… …

    Grammatical examples in English

  • 45Crash — Flugzeugabsturz; Flugzeugunglück; Absturz; Bluescreen (umgangssprachlich) * * * Crash 〈[ kræ̣ʃ] m. 6〉 1. Zusammenstoß von Fahrzeugen im Verkehr 2. 〈EDV〉 Zusammenbruch eines EDV Systems, z. B. durch Programmfehler; Sy Absturz [engl., „Krach,… …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 46crash — I [[t]kræʃ[/t]] v. i. 1) to make a loud, clattering noise, as of something dashed to pieces 2) to break or fall to pieces with noise 3) (of moving objects) to collide, esp. violently and noisily 4) to strike with a crash 5) aer. to land an… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 47crash — I. /kræʃ / (say krash) verb (t) 1. to force or impel with violence and noise. 2. to damage (a motor vehicle, aircraft, etc.) in a collision. 3. to break (something) into pieces violently and noisily; shatter. 4. Colloquial to come uninvited to (a …

  • 48Crash ! — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Crash. Crash ! (titre original : Crash) est un roman de science fiction de J. G. Ballard, publié pour la première fois en 1973, dont le thème central est la perversion sexuelle que cultive une… …

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  • 49crash — 1. noun /kɹæʃ/ a) An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident. One of my favorites among the terms of groups of creatures is a crash of rhinoceros. I can imagine an African guide saying to his client, “Shoot, dammit, shoot! Here comes the… …

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  • 50Crash — A sudden and significant decline in the value of a market. A crash is most often associated with an inflated stock market. Causes for a crash may include an economic bubble in which securities, or other investments, are trading at prices far… …

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