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gate-crasher|ˈgeɪtˌkræʃə(r)|
[f. gate n.1 + crasher 2.]
One who enters a sports ground or a private party, reception, entertainment, etc., without an invitation or ticket; also transf. and fig. Hence ˈgate-crash v. intr. and trans., to enter (a party, etc.) as a gatecrasher; ˈgate-crashing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1927Daily News 28 June 5/3 ‘One-eyed Connolly’, the champion American ‘gate crasher’ (one who gains admittance to big sporting events without payment). Ibid., The Committee of the White Rose Ball..dealt severely with a few cases of ‘gate crashing’. 1928Sunday Dispatch 15 July 1 The doom of the society gate-crasher is irretrievably fixed. Ibid. 5 Aug. 3/2 He was arrested for ‘gate-crashing’ over the frontier from Canada to America without a passport. 1929Daily Mail 18 July 7/4 (headline) Gate-crashing woman. Ibid., Helly Cozzonis..was the gate-crasher at the Mansion House reception. 1930Morn. Post 19 Aug. 12/1 A ‘Political Gatecrasher’. 1931E. Mannin Ragged Banners viii. 80 Geoffrey Hayes is giving a party to-night—shall we gate-crash? 1933D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise xi. 192 I'm sick of Slinker's parties..let's go and gate-crash something really virtuous. Ibid. 198 ‘I had the pleasure of entertaining your cousin there one night.’ ‘Did he gate-crash on you? That is exactly what he would do.’ 1957D. Robins Noble One vii. 73 ‘Afraid I'm a gate-crasher,’ he said. ‘Your father heard me knock and let me in.’ 1963Times 23 May 4/7 The British women can be said to have gate-crashed the semi-final round. |