Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who gains admittance, as to a party or concert, without being invited or without paying.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb A person who enters into a party or other social event without an invitation, or into a theater or other public performance without a ticket.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun slang A person who enters some event without a ticket or invitation, either by sneaking in, or talking their way past a ticket taker, or some other stealthy technique, rather than a confrontational encounter.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who gets in (to a party) without an invitation or without paying
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Examples
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"gatecrasher" and says he is "genuinely sick" of all controversies. air of expectancy surrounding Abhimanyu Mithun's selection to the national Test squad, the paceman himself Mumbai: For years, Manish Kumar* has been gazing longingly at marathon hoardings exhorting future.
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But the whole saga looks to me like a bad case of gatecrasher syndrome.
Margaret Heffernan: Rebekah Brooks: A Bad Case of Gatecrasher Syndrome? Margaret Heffernan 2011
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But as I made my way there on the Hillsong courtesy shuttle, I felt like a freeloading interloper, a joyless gatecrasher en route to a children's party with the sole intention of stealing party bags and calling the birthday boy names.
Christopher Price: Australian Idolatry: Evangelical Christians Resurrecting the Music Industry Christopher Price 2011
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And while in their brashness they may exude all the phony confidence of a gatecrasher, they also refresh our perceptions.
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Erwin Gomez and Peggy Ioakim, the two stylists subpoenaed in the White House gatecrasher investigation, certainly pulled out all the stops when traveling to their ...
Hilary Moss: Michaele Salahi Should Be Sorry For Her Sari 2010
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The Root reported Friday that Rogers, who stepped down from her Obama Administration job following the 2009 White House state dinner gatecrasher debacle, would join Johnson Publishing as a consultant to get the company back on it's feet.
Desiree Rogers Joins Johnson Publishing, Will Work To Save Struggling Chicago Company 2010
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Rogers, who stepped down from her Obama Administration job following the 2009 White House state dinner gatecrasher debacle, joined Johnson Publishing as a consultant earlier this summer, and on Tuesday the company announced that she would take over as CEO.
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At the former shows, designer labels are standard uniform if you want to avoid looking like a gatecrasher, haughty attitudes are a must if you want to combat aggressive PR reps, and a tough game face is required once you are caught sneaking onto front row.
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Faced with such belief, my republicanism felt like an interloper, a gatecrasher at a devout gathering.
Archive 2008-01-01 Jan 2008
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You can be certain there will be a gatecrasher or two at the NCAA's "Big Dance".
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