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gate crash en · VERB

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, rare) Alternative form of gatecrash.
   alt of gatecrash
   • A total stranger, cannot as a rule, gate crash a purely private party, though cases do exist when this has been done. 1968, Omar Kureishi, “Out to Lunch”, in Publications, Vision, page 21:
   • It was 1936 when the twenty-year-old "Ruffles" Johns announced to the press that he was going to attempt the biggest gate crash of his young career. 1970, Miles Wolff, Lunch at the five and ten: the Greensboro sit-ins: a contemporary history, page 24:
   • Out on the “strip”, it was party night, so we gate crashed the evening. 2007, Tony Bell, Life in the Bus Lane, Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Pu, →ISBN, page 264:
   • One of the women in my group was staying at the same hotel, but she had plans to be with friends that first night and I did not want to “gate crash” her time. 1996, Sheila Walsh, Honestly, Zondervan, published 1997, →ISBN, page 108:

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gate crasher