"gate crash" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: gate crashes [present, singular, third-person], gate crashing [participle, present], gate crashed [participle, past], gate crashed [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} gate crash (third-person singular simple present gate crashes, present participle gate crashing, simple past and past participle gate crashed)
  1. (very rare) Alternative form of gatecrash Tags: alt-of, alternative, rare Alternative form of: gatecrash Derived forms: gate crasher
    Sense id: en-gate_crash-en-verb-7gKiy9s7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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