Crash (v.) ("Wedding Crashers" & "Gate Crashers")(1920)

Thu Jun 30 09:30:28 UTC 2005

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 02:47:08 EDT, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>CRASH
>...
>A new Vince Vaughn movie is called "Wedding Crashers." HDAS has "crash"
>from 1921, "crasher" from 1922, and "gate-crasher" from 1921 (That would
>be the infamous dachshund non-speller, "Ted" Dorgan).

[snip 1920 cites]

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1919 _Atlanta Constitution_ 31 May 14/4 Had no trouble crashing the gate,
as the doorkeeper thought he was a new kind of turtle.
["Two and Three: Putting the Next One Over" by Bugs Baer]
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--Ben Zimmer