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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

Words formed from gate crash

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 array
  2. gate arrays
  3. gate box
  4. gate boxes
  5. Gate City
  6. gate crash
  7. gate crashed
  8. gate crasher
  9. gate crashers
  10. gate crashes
  11. gate crashing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gate crash (page history and authors); gatecrash (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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