crash course

noun

1. a brief, intensive course of instruction, as to prepare one quickly for a test.

Idioms and Phrases

A short, intensive training course, as in Daisy planned to take a crash course in cooking before she got married . [ Colloquial ; mid-1900s]

Example Sentences

That full-length project, released in 1999, wasn’t a full-spectrum showcase of those “qualities,” but it did offer listeners a crash course in her strengths.

From Time

Now that you’ve completed your couscous crash course, head to our Recipe Finder to check out the various couscous recipes available.

From Washington Post

Here is a crash course in how Amazon advertising experts are approaching the 500-pound gorilla.

From Digiday

Instead of leadership, we got a crash course in the futility and misery of trying to manage a systemic disaster via millions of disconnected individual choices.

From FiveThirtyEight

Tell your glad-handing state and municipal leaders, with their finger-in-the-breeze priorities and vaccine websites that freeze, to take a crash course in organizational competence from the NFL.

From Washington Post

The movie shot a few days inside the Armory, and Franco was given a crash course in the world of Kink.com.

From The Daily Beast

The upshot is to immerse oneself in a crash course on institutional racism and police brutality.

From The Daily Beast

Plus WATCH two exclusive—and explosive—videos from Richard Hammond's Crash Course.

From The Daily Beast

Since it was early afternoon, Rinzler gave me a crash-course in “right drinking” over a pot of Chrysanthemum tea.

From The Daily Beast

He is the author of Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance.

From The Daily Beast