Usually means: Intense, temporary infatuation with someone.
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General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. crush: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. crush: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crush: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crush: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crush: Vocabulary.com
  6. Crush, crush: Wordnik
  7. crush: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. crush: Wiktionary
  9. crush: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. crush: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. crush: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. crush: Dictionary.com
  13. crush: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. crush: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Crush: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. crush: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. crush: Rhymezone
  19. crush: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. crush: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Crush: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. crush: Free Dictionary
  23. crush: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. crush: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. crush: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. Crush: World Wide Words
  27. crush: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
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Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. crush: Legal dictionary
  2. Crush: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crush: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. crush: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. CRUSH: Acronym Finder
  4. crush: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crush, crush, crush, crush, crush, crush, crush: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Crush: Sports Definitions

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See crushable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A violent collision or compression; a crash; destruction; ruin.
noun:  Violent pressure, as of a moving crowd.
noun:  A violent crowding.
noun:  A crowd that produces uncomfortable pressure.
noun:  (slang) A group or gang.
noun:  A crowd control barrier.
noun:  A drink made by squeezing the juice out of fruit.
noun:  (informal) An infatuation with somebody one is not dating.
noun:  (informal, by extension) The human object of such infatuation or affection.
noun:  A standing stock or cage with movable sides used to restrain livestock for safe handling.
noun:  (dated) A party or festive function.
noun:  (Australia) The process of crushing cane to remove the raw sugar, or the season when this process takes place.
noun:  (television, uncountable) The situation where certain colors are so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.
noun:  (uncountable, sexuality) A paraphilia involving arousal from seeing things destroyed by crushing.
verb:  To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity, or to force together into a mass.
verb:  To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding.
verb:  (figurative) To overwhelm by pressure or weight.
verb:  (figurative, colloquial) To do impressively well at (sports events; performances; interviews; etc.).
verb:  To oppress or grievously burden.
verb:  To overcome completely; to subdue totally.
verb:  (intransitive) To be or become broken down or in, or pressed into a smaller volume or area, by external weight or force.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To feel infatuation or unrequited love.
verb:  (film, television) To give a compressed or foreshortened appearance to.
verb:  (transitive, television) To make certain colors so similar as to be hard to distinguish, either as a deliberate effect or as a limitation of a display.

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