crasher

crash ¹  (krsh)

v. crashed, crash·ing, crash·es

v.intr.

1.

a. To break violently or noisily; smash.

b. To undergo sudden damage or destruction on impact: Their car crashed into a guardrail. The airplane crashed over the ocean.

2. To make a sudden loud noise: breakers crashing against the rocks.

3. To move noisily or so as to cause damage: went crashing through the woods.

4. To undergo a sudden severe downturn, as a market or economy.

5. Computer Science To stop functioning due to a crash.

6. Slang To undergo a period of unpleasant feeling or depression as an aftereffect of drug-taking.

7. Slang

a. To find temporary lodging or shelter, as for the night.

b. To go to sleep.

v.tr.

1. To cause to crash.

2. To dash to pieces; smash.

3. Informal To join or enter (a party, for example) without invitation.

n.

1. A sudden loud noise, as of an object breaking.

2.

a. A smashing to pieces.

b. A collision, as between two automobiles. See Synonyms at collision.

3. A sudden severe downturn: a market crash; a population crash.

4. Computer Science

a. A sudden failure of a hard drive caused by damaging contact between the head and the storage surface, often resulting in the loss of data on the drive.

b. A sudden failure of a program or operating system, usually without serious consequences.

5. Slang Mental depression after drug-taking.

adj. Informal

Of or characterized by an intensive effort to produce or accomplish: a crash course on income-tax preparation; a crash diet.

Idiom:

crash and burn Slang

1. To fail utterly.

2. To fall asleep from exhaustion.

3. To wipe out, as in skateboarding.

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[Middle English crasschen; probably akin to crasen, to shatter; see craze.]

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crasher n.

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Noun

1.

crasher - someone who gets in (to a party) without an invitation or without paying gatecrasher, unwelcome guest interloper, intruder, trespasser - someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission