crash

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Naija

Alternative forms

Etymology

From English: crash

Pronunciation

  • krâʃ

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Frequency

  • Frequency in NSC treebank: 3
  • Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 1512
  • Frequency in raw corpus: 164
  • Frequency rank in raw corpus: 1503

The word is used more in written texts than orally.


Verb

  1. Make person sleep.
    I wan crash.  — (Egbokhare_2020, I want to sleep.)
    Na dere, we go crash.  — (IBA_41_Christ-Passion-Finale_MG__9, That's where we'll spend the night.)
  2. Make Plane get accident.
    No passenger dey di plane wen e crash.  — (bbc__75263, There was no one in the plane when it crashed.)
    Airline mechanic don crash plane, e fly without permission from airport  — (bbc__13426, An airline mechanic crashed an aeroplane, he flew without permission from the airport.)
  3. Make someting spoil.
    Na so Nigerians dey call VAIDS phone sotay di thing crash.  — (bbc__71856, Nigerians kept calling VAIDS phone until it crashed.)
    My laptop don crash yesterday.  — (NSC__Olukayode.S.M_2021, My PC crashed yesterday.)

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Translations

  • English: to sleep, crash