gatecrasher
noun
gatecrasher is a noun meaning “A person who enters some event without a ticket or invitation, either by stealth or by deception” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-A-T-E-C-R-A-S-H-E-R, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of gatecrasher is gatecrashers.
What does gatecrasher mean?
noun
- 1
slangA person who enters some event without a ticket or invitation, either by stealth or by deception.
- 2
The groom or one of his groomsmen when partaking in the gatecrashing ritual of a traditional Chinese wedding.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce gatecrasher?
- Australia
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-gatecrasher.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of gatecrasher
- gatecrashers plural
- gate crasher
- gate-crasher
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is gatecrasher?
Gatecrasher appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 136,649th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Gatecrasher in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a person who gatecrashes:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | incruste, pique-assiette, resquilleur, resquilleuse |
| German | Eindringling |
| Portuguese | penetra |
| Spanish | paracaidista, colado, gorrón |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does gatecrasher come from?
From gate + crasher.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).