"crash course" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-au-crash course.ogg Forms: crash courses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} crash course (plural crash courses)
  1. (idiomatic) A quick, intense course of learning, especially one which is informal or hurried. Tags: idiomatic Translations (quick, intense course): حَلَقَة دِرَاسِيَّة مُكَثِّفَة (ḥalaqa dirāsiyya mukaṯṯifa) [feminine] (Arabic), curs intensiu [masculine] (Catalan), 速成班 (sùchéngbān) (Chinese Mandarin), lynkursus [neuter] (Danish), crashcourse [masculine] (Dutch), snelcursus [masculine] (Dutch), stoomcursus [masculine] (Dutch), pikakurssi (Finnish), cours intensif [masculine] (French), formation courte [feminine] (French), formation accélérée [feminine] (French), Schnellkurs [masculine] (German), Intensivkurs [masculine] (German), Crashkurs [masculine] (German), gyorstalpaló (Hungarian), corso accelerato (Italian), 短期集中コース (tanki shūchū kōsu) (Japanese), 속성반 (sokseongban) (Korean), 단기집중코스 (dan'gi jipjung koseu) (Korean), lynkurs (Norwegian), kurs na zderzenie [masculine] (Polish), kurs błyskawiczny [masculine] (Polish), уско́ренный курс (uskórennyj kurs) [masculine] (Russian), интенси́вный курс (intensívnyj kurs) [masculine, often] (Russian), curso intensivo [masculine] (Spanish), intensivkurs [common-gender] (Swedish), snabbkurs [common-gender] (Swedish), hızlandırılmış kurs (Turkish)

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