Crash

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Crash or CRASH may refer to:

Common meanings

  • Collision, an impact between two or more objects
  • Crash (computing), a condition where a program is abruptly forcibly terminated for performing an illegal operation.
  • Cardiac arrest, a medical condition in which the heart stops beating
  • Couch surfing, temporarily staying at another person's home
  • Gate crashing, the act of entering an event without invitation
  • Stock market crash, a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices
  • Traffic collision, a vehicle hitting another object

Arts and entertainment

Film

  • The Crash (1932 film), a drama starring Ruth Chatterton
  • Crash (1974 film), a Norwegian drama directed by Rolf Clemens
  • Crash!, a 1977 suspense drama starring José Ferrer and Sue Lyon
  • Crash (1978 film), a made-for-TV docudrama starring William Shatner and Adrienne Barbeau
  • Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501, a 1990 made-for-TV film starring Cheryl Ladd
  • Crash (1996 film), a drama directed by David Cronenberg
  • Crash (2004 film), directed by Paul Haggis and winner of the 2005 Academy Award for Best Picture
  • The Crash (2017 film), a thriller directed by Aram Rappaport

Television

  • Crash (American TV series), an American drama based on the 2004 film
  • Crash (Danish TV series), a Danish science-fiction series
  • Crash (South Korean TV series), a South Korean comedy crime investigative series
  • Crash (Welsh TV series), an English-language Welsh medical drama series
  • Crashh, a 2021 Indian web series
  • Çarpışma (transl. Crash), a 2018-19 Turkish TV series

Publications

  • Crash (J. G. Ballard novel), the basis of the 1996 film
  • Crash (magazine), dedicated to the ZX Spectrum home computer and published from 1984 to 1991
  • Crash (Spinelli novel), by Jerry Spinelli, 1996
  • Crash Magazine, a French independent magazine
  • Crash! (manga), a 2007 manga series by Yuka Fujiwara

Music

Bands

  • Crash (South Korean band), a thrash metal band, who formed in 1991 from Seoul
  • Crash (UK band), an indie rock band, from New York in the 1980s

Albums

  • Crash (Billy "Crash" Craddock album) (1976)
  • Crash (Dave Matthews Band album) (1996)
  • Crash (Decyfer Down album) (2009)
  • Crash (The Human League album) (1986)
  • Crash! (album), by guitarist Kenny Burrell (1963)
  • Crash (Charli XCX album) (2022)

Songs

  • "Crash" (Cavo song) (2009)
  • "Crash" (Feeder song) (1997)
  • "Crash" (The Primitives song) (1988)
  • "Crash" (Royseven song) (2007)
  • "Crash" (Gwen Stefani song) (2006)
  • "Crash" (Have Some Fun), by TKA featuring Michelle Visage (1990)
  • "Crash" (Usher song) (2016)
  • "Crash", by Baboon from Something Good Is Going to Happen to You, 2002
  • "Crash" by Delta Goodrem on her album Bridge Over Troubled Dreams 2021
  • "Crash", by Shayne Ward from Obsession, 2010
  • "Crash", by Nicola Roberts from Cinderella's Eyes, 2011
  • "Crash!", by Propellerheads from Extended Play, 1998

Fictional characters

  • Crash, a prehistoric opossum character in the Ice Age franchise
  • Crash, an anthropomorphic puppet and main character in the Disney XD sitcom Crash & Bernstein
  • Crash Bandicoot (character), the primary protagonist in the video game series of the same name

Video games

  • Burnout Crash!, a spin-off of the Burnout series
  • Crash Bandicoot, a series of adventure video games
    • Crash Bandicoot (video game), the first game of the series
  • Hot Wheels: Crash!, a video game released in 1999 for Microsoft Windows

Card games

  • Crash (card game), a British card game
  • CRASH convention, a convention in the game of contract bridge

People

  • Crash (graffiti artist), American artist John Matos (born 1961)
  • Ray "Crash" Corrigan (1902–1976), American actor
  • Billy "Crash" Craddock (born 1939), country music singer
  • Darby Crash (1958–1980), punk rock musician
  • Crash Davis (1919–2001), American baseball player who inspired the name of the movie character
  • Crash Holly and Crash, ring names of American professional wrestler Mike Lockwood (1971–2003)

Sports teams

Other uses

  • Crash (genus), a genus of fossil bandicoots published in 2014
  • Crash cymbal, used in occasional drumming accents
  • HMS Crash, British Royal Navy vessels
  • Sugar crash, a supposed sense of fatigue after consuming a large number of carbohydrates
  • Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (CRASH), a unit of the Los Angeles Police Department
  • Crash, (herd) of rhinoceroses
  • Crash (fabric), a plain linen fabric used for towels
  • Crash, slang for a drug comedown

See also

  • Crash course (disambiguation)
  • The Crash (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles containing Crash
  • All pages with titles containing The Crash
  • "Crashed", a song by Daughtry
  • Crasher (Gobots), several fictional characters in the Gobots toyline and cartoon, and Transformers series
  • Crashing (disambiguation)
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