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crush(1) (iou)



crush noun. ME.
[from the verb.]
The noise of violent percussion; clashing; a crash. Only in ME.
An act of crushing; violent compression or pressure that bruises, breaks down, injures, or destroys; destruction by crushing. L16.
Addison The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. fig.: S. Johnson A heavy crush of disaster.
A bruise or injury caused by crushing. Now rare or obsolete. E17.
The crowding together of a number of things; a crowded mass, esp. of people. E19.
Dickens A crush of carts and chairs and coaches.
b. A crowded social gathering. colloq. M19.
Ld Macaulay I fell in with her at Lady Grey's great crush.
c. A group of people; spec. a body or unit of troops, a regiment. slang. E20.
In full crush-pen. A fenced passage with one narrow end for handling cattle, sheep, etc. M19.
(A person who is the object of) an infatuation. slang. L19.
have a crush on, get a crush on, etc., be, become, infatuated with.
M. Laski The pupil with a crush who would..give unstinting doglike devotion.
Croquet. In full crush stroke. A foul stroke made when a mallet touches a ball that is in contact with a peg or hoop other than in playing it away. E20.
A drink made from the juice of crushed fruit. E20.
Comb.: crush bar a place in a theatre, opera-house, etc., for the audience to buy drinks in the intervals; crush barrier a (temporary) barrier for restraining a crowd; crush-hat a soft hat which can be crushed flat; spec. a hat constructed with a spring so as to collapse, an opera hat; crush-pen: see sense 5 above; crush-room arch. a room or area in a theatre, opera-house, etc., for the audience to walk about during the intervals; crush stroke: see sense 7 above.