gatecrasher
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7.2
- noun
- /ˈɡeɪtˌkræʃər/
- Informal
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invitado no deseado
- At last night's wedding, a few uninvited gatecrashers decided to help themselves to the buffet.
Examples
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A bit more research on the Linux Fund/Stonehenge party turned up that the women in question were paid to be there; they were not gatecrashers or friends of conference attendees.
Blog text (11) -
She was called the female Tareq Salahi, the infamous White House "gatecrasher" who was given to overplaying his hand.
Blog text (3) -
Somebody better tell me who invited these gatecrashers?
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- We've got a gatecrasher.
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And if anyone had a question, we're a couple of gatecrashers.
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Yeah, who were those gatecrashers, Vern?
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You must have an unreasonable fear of gatecrashers to carry this heavy artillery.
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If I were editing this manuscript, I would mark an "X" here and write in the margin: "author intrusion," meaning the author has barged in like a gatecrasher, spoiling the story.
Fiction book (2002) -
So I woke up in the middle of the night worrying about the very attractive gate crashers at the President's first White House State Dinner (the total breach of security), and 'googled' Jerry Berliant, the champion gatecrasher of our time, and before I knew it, I was reading Roger's blog (for the first time ever).
Blog text (9) -
The party was lively, but I noticed several gatecrashers mingling without an invitation.
Synonyms
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7.5
A person who goes to a party without an invitation or payment
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7.0
A person who goes to a party without being invited and often causes trouble
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3.8
A person who comes to an event without being invited or wanted
Antonyms
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Morphology
Etymology
Gatecrasher comes from the common words gate and crash, where crash here means 'force your way in'. Picture someone bursting through a gate to get into a party, and you have a gatecrasher, a person who goes to an event without being invited or without paying.