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crash course

American  

noun

  1. a brief, intensive course of instruction, as to prepare one quickly for a test.


crash course Idioms  
  1. A short, intensive training course, as in Daisy planned to take a crash course in cooking before she got married. [Colloquial; mid-1900s]


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During her first year as CFO, Bill’s Rohini Jain received a crash course on the hard choices facing many software companies in the AI age.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Play is the primary side dish at “7 Paintings,” a tech-infused dinner theater that aims to be a crash course in fine art.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

This short, acrid, somewhat heavy-handed work depicts Valentin’s crash course in political cynicism.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 3, 2026

For outsiders, Musk v Altman offered a crash course in how power is wielded in Silicon Valley.

From BBC May 15, 2026

Gail would have triumphed at Jerry’s, I’m sure, but for me it’s a crash course in exhaustion management.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

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