| 1. | to make a loud, clattering noise, as of something dashed to pieces. |
| 2. | to break or fall to pieces with noise. |
| 3. | (of moving vehicles, objects, etc.) to collide, esp. violently and noisily. |
| 4. | to move or go with a crash; strike with a crash. |
| 5. | Aeronautics. to land in an abnormal manner, usually causing severe damage: The airliner crashed. |
| 6. | to collapse or fail suddenly, as a financial enterprise: The stock market crashed. |
| 7. | Informal. to gain admittance to a party, performance, etc., without an invitation, ticket, or permission. |
| 8. | Slang.
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| 9. | Slang. to experience unpleasant sensations, as sudden exhaustion or depression, when a drug, esp. an amphetamine, wears off. |
| 10. | Medicine/Medical Slang. to suffer cardiac arrest. |
| 11. | Ecology. (of a population) to decline rapidly. |
| 12. | Computers. to shut down because of a malfunction of hardware or software. |
| 13. | to break into pieces violently and noisily; shatter. |
| 14. | to force or drive with violence and noise (usually fol. by in, through, out, etc.). |
| 15. | Aeronautics. to cause (an aircraft) to make a landing in an abnormal manner, usually damaging or wrecking the aircraft. |
| 16. | Informal.
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| 17. | a sudden loud noise, as of something being violently smashed or struck: the crash of thunder. |
| 18. | a breaking or falling to pieces with loud noise: the sudden crash of dishes. |
| 19. | a collision or crashing, as of automobiles, trains, etc. |
| 20. | the shock of collision and breaking. |
| 21. | a sudden and violent falling to ruin. |
| 22. | a sudden general collapse of a business enterprise, prosperity, the stock market, etc.: the crash of 1929. |
| 23. | Aeronautics. an act or instance of crashing. |
| 24. | Ecology. a sudden, rapid decline in the size of a population. |
| 25. | characterized by an intensive effort, esp. to deal with an emergency, meet a deadline, etc.: a crash plan to house flood victims; a crash diet. |
| 1. | a plain-weave fabric of rough, irregular, or lumpy yarns, for toweling, dresses, etc. |
| 2. | Bookbinding. starched cotton fabric used to reinforce the spine of a bound book. |

crash 1 (krāsh) v. crashed, crash·ing, crash·es v. intr.
Of or characterized by an intensive effort to produce or accomplish: a crash course on income-tax preparation; a crash diet. [Middle English crasschen; probably akin to crasen, to shatter; see craze.] crash'er n. |
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A major decline in a financial market.
Investopedia Commentary
Crashes are substantial and lingering. To be considered a crash, the market decline must be evidenced as a 20% drop in an index's total value.
Related Links
The Greatest Market Crashes
See also: Black Monday, Correction, Panic Selling
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1. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the system, especially of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what happened when the air gap of a hard disk collapses). "Three lusers lost their files in last night's disk crash." A disk crash that involves the read/write heads dropping onto the surface of the disks and scraping off the oxide may also be referred to as a "head crash", whereas the term "system crash" usually, though not always, implies that the operating system or other software was at fault.
2. To fail suddenly. "Has the system just crashed?" "Something crashed the OS!" See down. Also used transitively to indicate the cause of the crash (usually a person or a program, or both). "Those idiots playing SPACEWAR crashed the system."
[The Jargon File]
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crash
any of several rugged fabrics made from yarns that are irregular, firm, strong, and smooth but sometimes raw and unprocessed. Included are gray, bleached, boiled, plain, twill, and fancy-weave crash. The coarsest type is called Russian crash. Linen is generally used for the warp yarn, while linen, jute, or a mixture of linen and jute is used for the filler. Plain weave is normally employed, but twill is sometimes used.
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