crash and burn

1. To break violently or noisily; smash.

2. To undergo sudden damage or destruction on impact: Their car crashed into a guardrail. The airplane crashed over the ocean.

3. To find temporary lodging or shelter, as for the night.

4. To go to sleep.

To make a sudden loud noise: breakers crashing against the rocks.

To move noisily or so as to cause damage: went crashing through the woods.

To undergo a sudden severe downturn, as a market or economy.

Computer Science To stop functioning due to a crash.

Slang To undergo a period of unpleasant feeling or depression as an aftereffect of drug-taking.

Slang

1. To find temporary lodging or shelter, as for the night.

2. To go to sleep.

To cause to crash.

To dash to pieces; smash.

Informal To join or enter (a party, for example) without invitation.

A sudden loud noise, as of an object breaking.

1. A smashing to pieces.

2. A collision, as between two automobiles. See Synonyms at collision.

3. A sudden failure of a hard drive caused by damaging contact between the head and the storage surface, often resulting in the loss of data on the drive.

4. A sudden failure of a program or operating system, usually without serious consequences.

A sudden severe downturn: a market crash; a population crash.

Computer Science

1. A sudden failure of a hard drive caused by damaging contact between the head and the storage surface, often resulting in the loss of data on the drive.

2. A sudden failure of a program or operating system, usually without serious consequences.

Slang Mental depression after drug-taking.