crash course

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crash course (plural crash courses)

  1. (idiomatic) A quick, intense course of learning, especially one which is informal or hurried.
    He got a crash course in babysitting when his sister dropped off his nephew for the afternoon.
    • 2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 145:
      Students were essentially given a ‘crash course’ in how to be a lexicographer over a number of tutorial classes, beginning with lexicographical data collection.

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