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gate-crash

verb

  1. to gain entry to (a party, concert, etc) without invitation or payment

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Word Forms

  • gate-crasher noun
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Example Sentences

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Spurs equalled their best ever Premier League win at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium and will have real belief that they can gate-crash the Champions League qualification places.

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What follows is an odious odyssey from one dust up to another as these two public menaces gobble trash, shoot a homeless man and, in one especially loathsome sequence, gate-crash a private bestiality club.

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"If you invite family and friends over for a party or a coffee in your home, there's a big chance the virus will gate-crash."

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“But gate-crash? Never. That was a different time.”

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Tudor Simionov, 33, was working as a doorman at a private New Year's Eve party in central London when he was fatally stabbed after a group of men tried to gate-crash.

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