Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - gatecrash

(gatecrashes, gatecrashing, gatecrashed) If someone gatecrashes a party or other social event, they go to it, even though they have not been invited. Scores of people tried desperately to gatecrash the party... He had gatecrashed but he was with other people we knew and there was no problem. VERB: V n, V • gatecrasher (gatecrashers) Panic set in as gatecrashers tried to force their way through the narrow doors and corridors. N-COUNT