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crash course

crash course noun: a quick, intense course of learning, especially one which is informal or hurried.

Noun

crash course (plural crash courses)

  1. (idiomatic) A quick, intense course of learning, especially one which is informal or hurried.
    • He got a crash course in babysitting when his sister dropped off his nephew for the afternoon.
    • Students were essentially given a ‘crash course’ in how to be a lexicographer over a number of tutorial classes, beginning with lexicographical data collection.2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings...

crash course meaning in Tamil and Arabic

crash course in Tamil

கடுவிரைவு பயிற்சி வகுப்பு

crash course in Arabic

quick, intense course
حَلَقَة دِرَاسِيَّة مُكَثِّفَة ḥalaqa dirāsiyya mukaṯṯifa

Forms of crash course

pluralcrash courses

Questions about crash course

What does crash course mean?
Crash course means a quick, intense course of learning, especially one which is informal or hurried.
What is crash course in Tamil?
Crash course in Tamil is கடுவிரைவு பயிற்சி வகுப்பு. See Crash course meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is crash course?
Crash course is a noun.
What is the plural of crash course?
The plural of crash course is crash courses.

Words near crash course in the dictionary

  1. crash boats
  2. crash box
  3. crash boxes
  4. crash cart
  5. crash carts
  6. crash course
  7. crash courses
  8. crash cymbal
  9. crash cymbals
  10. crash diet
  11. crash diets

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: crash course (page history and authors); crash course (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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