crash course
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.
course
UK /kɔːs/ US /kɔːs/
noun 5verb 4adv 1
Definitions
noun
1
A sequence of events.
The normal course of events seems to be just one damned thing after another.
2
A sequence of events.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Day and night, / Seedtime and harvest, heat and hoary frost, / Shall hold their course.
3
A sequence of events.
4
A sequence of events.
There is but one course for me to follow: I'LL MOIDER THE BUM!
5
A sequence of events.
Her course will be ‘Communication Studies with Theatre Studies’: God, how tedious, how pointless.
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
verb
1
To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
The oil coursed through the engine.
Blood pumped around the human body courses throughout all its veins and arteries.
2
To run through or over.
3
To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
We coursed him at the heels.
4
To cause to chase after or pursue game.
to course greyhounds after deer
adv
1
Ellipsis of of course.
"Course it's mighty hard to tell till we've put out a few traps," said the former, "but it looks to me like we've struck it lucky."
Course, my home wasn't exactly in Harlem […]
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