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gatecrashing

gatecrashing is the present participle and gerund of gatecrash.

gatecrashing 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 gatecrashing

pluralgatecrashings

Questions about gatecrashing

What is gatecrashing the present participle and gerund of?
Gatecrashing is the present participle and gerund of gatecrash.

Words near gatecrashing in the dictionary

  1. gatecrash
  2. gatecrashed
  3. gatecrasher
  4. gatecrashers
  5. gatecrashes
  6. gatecrashing
  7. gatecrashings
  8. gated
  9. gated communities
  10. gated community
  11. gated off

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