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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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"It's kind of been like a bit of a crash course in making music," says Stella Quaresma of making FLO's second album, Therapy at the Club.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 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

After a $1.8 million renovation, a San Francisco couple received a crash course on winemaking from a neighbor and put their winery to work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

There might be no better way to catch up than a crash course in American fiction, the experiences of individuals as imagined by the nation’s finest and most influential authors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

With the goal of turning lady math teachers into crack junior engineers, the laboratory sponsored a crash course in engineering physics for new computers, an advanced version of the class offered at Hampton Institute.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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