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crushlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From crush + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a crush (infatuation).
   • She had a white-flecked black pageboy and rosy cheeks and big blue eyes with which she was staring at Enid unabashedly, in the way of someone very smart or very stupid. Such a crushlike intensity of looking suggested hunger. 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:

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