gate crash

present singular third person gate crashes · participle present gate crashing · participle past gate crashed · past gate crashed

1. alternativerareAlternative form of gatecrash.

   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

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   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

   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

   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