Meanings
plural crash courses
- idiomaticA quick, intense course of learning, especially one which is informal or hurried.
He got a crash course in babysitting when his sister dropped off his nephew for the afternoon.
1 more example
Students were essentially given a ‘crash course’ in how to be a lexicographer over a number of tutorial classes, beginning with lexicographical data collection.
2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 145
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna rapid and intense course of training or research (usually undertaken in an emergency)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Arabic حَلَقَة دِرَاسِيَّة مُكَثِّفَة
- حَلَقَة دِرَاسِيَّة مُكَثِّفَة (ḥalaqa dirāsiyya mukaṯṯifa)quick, intense course
Catalan curs intensiu
- curs intensiuquick, intense course
Chinese Mandarin 速成班
- 速成班 (sùchéngbān)quick, intense course
Danish lynkursus
- lynkursusquick, intense course
Dutch crashcourse, snelcursus
- crashcoursequick, intense course
- snelcursusquick, intense course
- stoomcursusquick, intense course
Finnish pikakurssi
- pikakurssiquick, intense course
French cours intensif, formation courte
- cours intensifquick, intense course
- formation courtequick, intense course
- formation accéléréequick, intense course
German Schnellkurs, Intensivkurs
- Schnellkursquick, intense course
- Intensivkursquick, intense course
- Crashkursquick, intense course
Hungarian gyorstalpaló
- gyorstalpalóquick, intense course
Indonesian kursus kilat
- kursus kilatquick, intense course
Italian corso accelerato
- corso acceleratoquick, intense course
Japanese 短期集中コース
- 短期集中コース (tanki shūchū kōsu)quick, intense course
Korean 속성반, 단기집중코스
- 속성반 (sokseongban)quick, intense course
- 단기집중코스 (dan'gi jipjung koseu)quick, intense course
Norwegian lynkurs
- lynkursquick, intense course
Polish kurs na zderzenie, kurs błyskawiczny
- kurs na zderzeniequick, intense course
- kurs błyskawicznyquick, intense course
Russian уско́ренный курс, интенси́вный курс
- уско́ренный курс (uskórennyj kurs)quick, intense course
- интенси́вный курс (intensívnyj kurs)quick, intense course
Spanish curso intensivo, curso acelerado
- curso intensivoquick, intense course
- curso aceleradoquick, intense course
Swedish intensivkurs, snabbkurs
- intensivkursquick, intense course
- snabbkursquick, intense course
Turkish hızlandırılmış kurs
- hızlandırılmış kursquick, intense course
Cite this entry
crash course. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crash%20course
“crash course.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crash%20course. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “crash course,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crash%20course.
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