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Crash

A ‘crash course’ is a short, intensive training course.
‘She took a crash course in Italian before her holiday to Venice.’

To ‘crash and burn’ is to fail in a spectacular way.
‘They were only open for three months before the business crashed and burned.’

To ‘gatecrash a party’ means to go to a party without an invitation.
‘So many people gatecrashed our party that we ran out of food.’