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gate-crash

gate-crash is the alternative form of gatecrash.

Meaning of gatecrash

Verb

gatecrash (third-person singular simple present gatecrashes, present participle gatecrashing, simple past and past participle gatecrashed)

  1. To attend a social event without having been invited, or without having paid.
    • “[…] I mean, she doesn’t belong to the Society—“
      ”What Society?”
      ”The Society that was meeting. I think she pushed in for a joke.”
      ”Gate-crashed you? […]”1935, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

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Forms of gate-crash

third-person singular presentgate-crashes
present participlegate-crashing
past participlegate-crashed
pastgate-crashed

Questions about gate-crash

What is gate-crash the alternative form of?
Gate-crash is the alternative form of gatecrash.

Words near gate-crash in the dictionary

  1. gate times
  2. gate valve
  3. gate valves
  4. gate vein
  5. gate veins
  6. gate-crash
  7. gate-crashed
  8. gate-crasher
  9. gate-crashers
  10. gate-crashes
  11. gate-crashing

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